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From: Olaf Dietsche <olaf.dietsche#list.linux-kernel@t-online.de>
To: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.47: strdup()
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 03:43:43 +0100
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Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net> writes:

> Olaf Dietsche wrote:
>> +static inline char *strdup(const char *s) { return kstrdup(s, GFP_KERNEL); }
>
> Why hide what's really going on ? Better change the callers to use
> kstrdup.

Convenience and laziness. And I haven't seen any other strdup() use,
which uses different allocation flags. But it's there for everybody to
use, if they wish.

Regards, Olaf.
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