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Message-ID: <1291069616.30543.879.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:26:56 -0500
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: pavel@...linux.ru
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Repalce strncmp by memcmp
On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 17:18 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Um, do you realize that the kernel does not always use the same memcmp
> as gcc.
>
Note, I'm not against the change, because in 99% of the cases, memcmp()
can and will be faster, and we don't need to worry about these strange
cases.
What I'm against is a blind s/strncmp/memcmp/ of the kernel, because it
may have side effects that you may not have thought of.
-- Steve
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