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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:02:15 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [TRIVIAL] kstrdup
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Hi!

> > > Everyone loves reimplementing strdup.  Give them a kstrdup (basically
> > > from drivers/md).
> > 
> > I believe it would be better to call it strdup.
> 
> No.  Don't confuse people.

Ehm?! What's confusing on strdup? Or you want to also introduce
kmemcpy, kmemcmp, ksprintf etc?
							Pavel
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