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SubjectRe: [PATCH] [TRIVIAL] kstrdup
Hi!

> > Ehm?! What's confusing on strdup? Or you want to also introduce
> > kmemcpy, kmemcmp, ksprintf etc?
>
> No, as long as they don't allocate any memory.
>
> "kstrdup" makes it clear that the string is allocated by kmalloc()
> and should be freed by kfree().

As we do not have any free(), there's no possibility for confusion.

As I said, if kstrdup took GFP_XXX argument, I'd agree, but as it
hardcodes GFP_KERNEL...
Pavel
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