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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
	Jay Estabrook <jay.estabrook@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: move kasprintf to a separate file
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:48:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46ABC7C0.9060302@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070728202012.GB25619@uranus.ravnborg.org>

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> kasprintf pulls in kmalloc which proved to be fatal for at least
> bootimage target on alpha.
> Move it to a separate file so only users of kasprintf are exposed
> to the dependency on kmalloc.
>   

OK by me (that's what my original patch did), but it might be worth
documenting what environmental constraints vsprintf.c is under.  I
didn't realize it was used by non-kernel code.

    J

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-28 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-04 11:21 alpha compile failure (srm_printk) Meelis Roos
2007-06-06  6:17 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-06  7:48   ` Meelis Roos
2007-07-28 17:05   ` Meelis Roos
2007-07-28 20:04     ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-07-28 20:20       ` [PATCH] lib: move kasprintf to a separate file Sam Ravnborg
2007-07-28 20:52         ` [PATCH] add a missing LIB_Y to arch/alpha/boot Makefile Meelis Roos
2007-07-28 22:48         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2007-07-29 20:08           ` [PATCH] lib: move kasprintf to a separate file Sam Ravnborg
2007-07-28 20:21       ` alpha compile failure (srm_printk) Sam Ravnborg

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