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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:22:52 -0800

> On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 20:54 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > [WEXT]: Extract standard call iw_point handling into seperate function.
> 
> This potentially does copy_from_user twice,
> first to the stack, second to a kmalloc'ed area.
> Perhaps it's better to kmalloc first and copy once?

I'm preserving existing behavior in these changes,
feel free to make these kinds of improvements as
a follow-on changeset.