From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] lib: Sparc's strncpy_from_user is generic enough, move under lib/
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 18:17:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14863.1337879872@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120523.233440.1152363385537335796.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> To use this, an architecture simply needs to:
>
> 1) Provide a user_addr_max() implementation via asm/uaccess.h
>
> 2) Add "select GENERIC_STRNCPY_FROM_USER" to their arch Kcnfig
>
> 3) Remove the existing strncpy_from_user() implementation and symbol
> exports their architecture had.
>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Contingent on removing the extraneous semicolon:
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-24 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-24 3:34 [PATCH 3/3] lib: Sparc's strncpy_from_user is generic enough, move under lib/ David Miller
2012-05-24 16:10 ` David Howells
2012-05-24 19:53 ` David Miller
2012-05-24 17:17 ` David Howells [this message]
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