linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Use kasprintf

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1010182202260.22877@ask.diku.dk>
Date:	Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:02:53 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
To:	Paulo Marques <pmarques@...popie.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Use kasprintf

On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Paulo Marques wrote:

> Julia Lawall wrote:
> > These patches convert a sequence of kmalloc and memcpy to use kasprintf
> > instead.
> 
> Aren't these patches just a more convoluted way of doing a kstrdup?
> 
> I would imagine that a kasprintf would make more sense when the format
> string is more complex than "%s", or am I missing something?

They have all already been changed to either kmemdup or kstrdup.

thanks,
julia
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