Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:02:07 -0800 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] uaccess: add copy_word_from_user |
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Steven Rostedt wrote: > This patch creates a copy_word_from_user function that can copy > a space delimited word from user space. This puts the code in > a new lib/uaccess.c file. This keeps the code in a single location > and may be optimized in the future.
I have a bit of an issue with the naming... at least *I* read this as copying a machine word, which made me wonder why you didn't just use "get_user". I would suggest copy_token_from_user or something like that.
-hpa
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