From: Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove gfp argument from kstrdup()
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 14:15:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060106141509.01c66bf2.tihirvon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f020601060351g48f3ef5bqf25a2a1bf02af4e6@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:51:41 +0200
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> On 1/5/06, Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com> wrote:
> > All kstrdup() callers use GFP_KERNEL flag so this parameter seems to be
> > useless.
>
> Please don't. You're making the API inconsistent and forcing everyone
> to use GFP_KERNEL for little or no benefit.
I don't see why any other GFP_* flag could be useful for strings.
--
http://onion.dynserv.net/~timo/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-06 12:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-05 21:42 Timo Hirvonen
2006-01-06 11:51 ` Pekka Enberg
2006-01-06 12:15 ` Timo Hirvonen [this message]
2006-01-06 12:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
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