Re: [PATCH] create a kstrdup library function

[Paulo Marques]

Paulo Marques wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch creates a new kstrdup library function and changes the 
> "local" implementations in several places to use this function.

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz reported that this breaks compilation under PPC.

Apparently, PPC builds a bootloader that links against lib.a but doesn't 
expect any dependencies on slab. Since kstrdup calls kmalloc, this 
breaks compilation.

I can fix this by moving kstrdup into slab.c. This way this is treated 
as an "allocation" function instead of a string function, so it makes 
some sense to do this.

Andrew, do you prefer an incremental patch against the current tree, or 
a single clean patch against the current tree with all the current 
kstrdup patches taken out?

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Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com

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