Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:04:54 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] remove usage of memmem from scripts/kallsyms.c |
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On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 05:15:56PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote: > > The only in-kernel user of "memmem" is scripts/kallsyms.c and it only > uses it to find tokens that are 2 bytes in size. It is trivial to > replace it with a simple function that finds 2-byte tokens. > > This should help users from systems that don't have the memmem GNU > extension available.
Please add a comment describing why it's there so that it's not ripped out again by the first janitor looking over the code.
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