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Subject: Re: [Fwd: [PATCH 1/2] string: Add stracpy and stracpy_pad
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From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Date:   Mon, 29 Jul 2019 09:28:34 -0700
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On Mon, 2019-07-29 at 10:07 -0400, Julia Lawall wrote:
> I see that stracpy is now in linux-next.  Would it be reasonable to send
> patches adding uses now?

My preference would be to have:

o A provably correct script  If a small subset of
  possible conversions are skipped, that's fine.
o As piecemeal patches cause a lot of churn, work
  for individual maintainers, and also are not
  universally applied, have that script run
  kernel-wide after an rc1 and applied all-at-once.