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

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:00:53PM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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.

That doesn't sound kosher, have a pointer?

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