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

Andrew Morton writes:

> > That doesn't sound kosher, have a pointer?
> > 
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/8/128

Yes, we currently use bits of lib/ in the zImage boot wrapper.  I
suspect we used to have our own string routines for the boot wrapper
until somebody said "why do we have all this code duplicated" and
cleaned it up. :)

Paul.
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