From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: remove bcopy()
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:22:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021007162227.A15313@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021007152510.K18545@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>; from willy@debian.org on Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 03:25:10PM +0100
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 03:25:10PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> There are very few places in the kernel which use bcopy() as of 2.5.40,
> and every single one of them #defines it to memcpy() [some argue this
> should be memmove(). i'm not terribly concerned]. There's also no
> declaration of the bcopy() function in the kernel headers. In light of
> this, would anyone object to a patch removing the definitions of bcopy
> from lib/string.c and arch/*/lib?
Please do. But please let the defines in XFS in place - this
way the source stais compatible to the IRIX version.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-07 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-07 14:25 Matthew Wilcox
2002-10-07 15:22 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-10-07 15:38 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-10-07 17:20 ` Matthew Wilcox
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