On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:24:55PM -0800, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 09:13:57PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Matt Mackall <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Add mm/util.c for functions common between SLAB and SLOB.
> >
> > We should probably add a ppc32-developers-are-weenies warning to string.c
>
> Well, yes. But I decided not to do that now because I ended up wanting
> to create mm/util.c anyway for kzalloc. I suspect we'll see other
> helper functions like kzalloc and kstrdup down the road.
>
> Also, I haven't investigated the PPC entanglements too closely, but
> converting it to use my cleaned up lib/inflate.c might reduce its
> dependence on lib/string.c
That's on my list of things to go and poke. But I don't recall us
depending on lib/string.c nowadays (but an occasional reimpl to match
declaration), just lib/zlib_inflate/
--
Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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