Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964772AbVKBJRV (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Nov 2005 04:17:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932694AbVKBJRV (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Nov 2005 04:17:21 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:55947 "EHLO ozlabs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932693AbVKBJRU (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Nov 2005 04:17:20 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17256.33817.263105.197325@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 20:17:13 +1100 From: Paul Mackerras To: Andrew Morton Cc: Matt Mackall , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trini@kernel.crashing.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] slob: move kstrdup to lib/string.c In-Reply-To: <20051102174020.37da0396.akpm@osdl.org> References: <2.494767362@selenic.com> <20051102170053.1c120a03.akpm@osdl.org> <20051102070337.GC4367@waste.org> <20051102174020.37da0396.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 585 Lines: 18 Andrew Morton writes: > > That doesn't sound kosher, have a pointer? > > > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/8/128 Yes, we currently use bits of lib/ in the zImage boot wrapper. I suspect we used to have our own string routines for the boot wrapper until somebody said "why do we have all this code duplicated" and cleaned it up. :) Paul. - 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/