Re: RFC: remove bcopy()

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Date: Mon Oct 07 2002 - 10:22:27 EST


On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 03:25:10PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> There are very few places in the kernel which use bcopy() as of 2.5.40,
> and every single one of them #defines it to memcpy() [some argue this
> should be memmove(). i'm not terribly concerned]. There's also no
> declaration of the bcopy() function in the kernel headers. In light of
> this, would anyone object to a patch removing the definitions of bcopy
> from lib/string.c and arch/*/lib?

Please do. But please let the defines in XFS in place - this
way the source stais compatible to the IRIX version.

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