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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