From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
peterz@infradead.org, srostedt@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] uaccess: add copy_word_from_user
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:54:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090225135446.e82ac3ff.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090225214018.GB5838@nowhere>
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:40:19 +0100
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why not expand it to a copy_delimited_from_user() ?
> This way we could use any separator we want, not just spaces.
> We could use one more parameter for the separator and
> copy_work_from_user would be a wrapper above.
hah! That was quick.
Yes, you could pass in a delimiter string or a pointer to a user-supplier
function (which defaults to isspace() if NULL?) or whatever. But we can
do that if and when it is needed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-25 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-25 20:30 [PATCH 0/4] [git pull] for tip/tracing/ftrace Steven Rostedt
2009-02-25 20:30 ` [PATCH 1/4] uaccess: add copy_word_from_user Steven Rostedt
2009-02-25 21:39 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-25 22:00 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-02-25 22:18 ` [PATCH][git pull] uaccess: add example to copy_word_from_user in comment Steven Rostedt
2009-02-25 21:40 ` [PATCH 1/4] uaccess: add copy_word_from_user Frederic Weisbecker
2009-02-25 21:54 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-02-25 23:56 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-26 1:46 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-02-26 5:34 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-26 2:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-26 2:10 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-02-26 2:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-26 2:17 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-02-26 2:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-26 5:36 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-26 5:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-02-25 20:30 ` [PATCH 2/4] tracing: convert event_trace to use copy_word_from_user Steven Rostedt
2009-02-25 20:30 ` [PATCH 3/4] tracing: convert ftrace_regex_write " Steven Rostedt
2009-02-25 20:30 ` [PATCH 4/4] tracing: convert ftrace_graph_write " Steven Rostedt
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