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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] lib: string_helpers: provide kfree_strarray()
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
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        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Date:   Mon, 28 Sep 2020 08:59:03 -0700
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On Mon, 2020-09-28 at 12:41 +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
> 
> There's a common pattern of dynamically allocating an array of char
> pointers and then also dynamically allocating each string in this
> array. Provide a helper for freeing such a string array with one call.

Isn't this also common for things like ring buffers?
Why limit this to char *[]?