From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750825AbWFUAOx (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:14:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751175AbWFUAOw (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:14:52 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:22401 "EHLO mail.goop.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750825AbWFUAOw (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:14:52 -0400 Message-ID: <44988F7F.2010502@goop.org> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:14:55 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060613) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Randy.Dunlap" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk, chrisw@sous-sol.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement kasprintf References: <44988B5C.9080400@goop.org> <20060620171020.301add23.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <20060620171020.301add23.rdunlap@xenotime.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Randy.Dunlap wrote: > Why do we want a separate source file for this one function? > Because if it shared a file with something else, someone would complain about it bloating code which doesn't use it... At the moment there are no in-tree users (though I'm sure there's something out there with an open-coded version of this), but we'll be needing it for Xen. I'm happy to fold it into vsprintf.c though. J