linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Consolidate check

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Date:	Sun, 8 Oct 2006 21:24:24 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...isc-linux.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Consolidate check_signature

On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 01:21:47PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:05:55 -0600
> Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx> wrote:
> 
> > There's nothing arch-specific about check_signature(), so move it to
> > <linux/io.h>.  Use a cross between the Alpha and i386 implementations
> > as the generic one.
> 
> It wuld have been nice to have uninlined it too.  And to have given
> it a less crappy name.

memcmp_withio(), to follow the general style?
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