Re: [PATCH 1/2] slob: move kstrdup to lib/string.c

Matt Mackall <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This move kstrdup to lib/string.c

The placement in slab.c was deliberate.  Putting it in lib/string.c breaks
ppc32.

ppc32 is reusing lib/string.c to build early userspace or something
like that, and calling kmalloc from there broke stuff.
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