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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Richard Henderson writes:

> Ignore strcpy.  Yes, that's what visibly causing a failure here,
> but the bug is in the funny pointer arithmetic.  Leave that in
> there and the compiler _will_ bite your ass sooner or later.

I look forward to seeing your patch to remove all uses of
virt_to_phys, phys_to_virt, __pa, __va, etc. from arch/alpha... :)

Paul.
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