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Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 20:39:44 +0100
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: removing bcopy... because it's half broken
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On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 07:23:05PM +0000, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

For a long time MIPS has defined __HAVE_ARCH_BCOPY without actually
implementing bcopy, so any kernel use did result in a build error.  As
far as I can recall all that it has caught were a few missconfigured
gccs, so yes, away with it.

  Ralf