Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Nov 2005 17:40:20 +1100 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] slob: move kstrdup to lib/string.c |
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Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:00:53PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> wrote: > > > > > > This move kstrdup to lib/string.c > > > > The placement in slab.c was deliberate. Putting it in lib/string.c breaks > > ppc32. > > > > ppc32 is reusing lib/string.c to build early userspace or something > > like that, and calling kmalloc from there broke stuff. > > That doesn't sound kosher, have a pointer? >
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