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[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> I will (hopefully) commit later today, but I have found one general
> technique that will cut down the code size but a small amount.
> In the chip_operations struct we have a name for debugging.
> Since we are no longer printing that name there is no point in
> keeping it.

hmm, this sounds like a lot of potential pain for a small gain. Can we 
talk about this a bit first. 

ron