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From: Chris Wright <chris@wirex.com>
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* Junfeng Yang (yjf@stanford.edu) wrote:
> 
> Thanks a lot for your confirmation! So actually the first copy_from_user
> is meant to copy in what "*data" points to, not "data".

That's how I read it, but I can't claim to know this code.  Sorry, I mistyped
Jaroslav's address on the original email (fixed now), I expect he's the one
to ask.

thanks,
-chris
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