linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 14/16] Add strstr to compressed string.c for ARM.

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Date:	Fri, 30 Aug 2013 15:02:10 +0100
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Roy Franz <roy.franz@...aro.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, matt.fleming@...el.com,
	Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@...aro.org>,
	Dave P Martin <dave.martin@....com>,
	Mark Salter <msalter@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/16] Add strstr to compressed string.c for ARM.

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 02:43:25PM +0100, Grant Likely wrote:
>> On Fri,  9 Aug 2013 16:26:15 -0700, Roy Franz <roy.franz@...aro.org> wrote:
>> > The shared efi-stub-helper.c functions require a strstr
>> > implementation.
>> > Implementation copied from arch/x86/boot/string.c
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@...aro.org>
>>
>> Okay, but at some point arch/arm/boot/compressed/string.c should be
>> reworked into a common place.
>
> Only if the common place can be built with arch specific compile options,
> like -fpic, without impacting the rest of the kernel.

agreed. It would be a bit of a science project to see how feasible.

g.
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