Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:16:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:16:56 -0400 Received: from carisma.slowglass.com ([195.224.96.167]:16145 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:16:54 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:22:27 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: remove bcopy() Message-ID: <20021007162227.A15313@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Matthew Wilcox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20021007152510.K18545@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20021007152510.K18545@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>; from willy@debian.org on Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 03:25:10PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 827 Lines: 17 On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 03:25:10PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > There are very few places in the kernel which use bcopy() as of 2.5.40, > and every single one of them #defines it to memcpy() [some argue this > should be memmove(). i'm not terribly concerned]. There's also no > declaration of the bcopy() function in the kernel headers. In light of > this, would anyone object to a patch removing the definitions of bcopy > from lib/string.c and arch/*/lib? Please do. But please let the defines in XFS in place - this way the source stais compatible to the IRIX version. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/