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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: use memdup_user()
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 00:02:38 -0700
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On Sunday 03 May 2009, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> No. To make it plain. To me any use of memdup_user() in USB code
> is a bad idea. I don't want to have to think about a new primitive.

Unless it's incorrect to use that, I have to say that it
makes more sense to use that utility than recreate it by
open-coding...