linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/4] add kstrndup

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Date:	Tue, 8 May 2007 14:56:53 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...driva.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Panagiotis Issaris <takis@...aris.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] add kstrndup

On Tue, 08 May 2007 13:51:30 -0700 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

> --- a/mm/util.c
> +++ b/mm/util.c
> @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ void *__kzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kzalloc);
>  
> -/*
> +/**
>   * kstrdup - allocate space for and copy an existing string

No blank ("*") line between function name and its parameters.
(occurs in multiple places in multiple patches in this series;
I'm not going to point out each one of them separately)

>   *
>   * @s: the string to duplicate
> @@ -39,6 +39,33 @@ char *kstrdup(const char *s, gfp_t gfp)
>  	return buf;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrdup);
> +
> +/**
> + * kstrndup - allocate space for and copy an existing string
> + *
> + * @s: the string to duplicate
> + * @max: read at most @max chars from @s
> + * @gfp: the GFP mask used in the kmalloc() call when allocating memory
> + */
> +char *kstrndup(const char *s, size_t max, gfp_t gfp)
> +{
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrndup);
>  
>  /**
>   * kmemdup - duplicate region of memory
> ===================================================================

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~Randy
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