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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: struct_cpy() and kAFS (was: Re: Linux 2.6.8-rc1) 
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> >  After this change, all archs need to provide struct_cpy() to make AFS
> >  compile, while currently only ia32 and amd64 provide it.
> 
> Seems a strange thing to do.  Why not rely on the type system?

I can't remember why I did it like this. The patch looks okay. Go for it.

David