From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Dan Aloni <da-x@gmx.net>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [BK PATCH 2.6] repost, fix sysctl breakage during network device renaming, for ipv4
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 11:31:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030901113143.1ba34464.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030901165559.GA27099@callisto.yi.org>
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 19:55:59 +0300
Dan Aloni <da-x@gmx.net> wrote:
> The private copy of strdup() is something that I'd also wouldn't
> want, but I don't have much choice. Please read a recent
> thread in lkml regarding strdup() consolidation.
Ugh, I'm afraid to look... I guess the controversy is
over the allocation function, what GFP_* flags it should
use etc.?
For now just call the thing in your patch netdev_name_dup() or
something like that. I can't handle having something named
"strdup()" in there :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-01 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-01 16:46 [BK PATCH 2.6] repost, fix sysctl breakage during network device renaming, for ipv4 Dan Aloni
2003-09-01 16:41 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-01 16:55 ` Dan Aloni
2003-09-01 18:31 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-09-01 18:55 ` Dan Aloni
2003-10-17 21:32 ` Dan Aloni
2003-10-18 7:01 ` David S. Miller
2003-10-18 11:20 ` Dan Aloni
2003-10-21 5:57 ` David S. Miller
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