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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:00:00 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> To: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> Subject: Re: [QUEUED v20180920 15/16] lib: Add memcat_p(): paste 2 pointer arrays together On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 03:45:52PM +0300, Alexander Shishkin wrote: > This adds a helper to paste 2 pointer arrays together, useful for merging > various types of attribute arrays. There are a few places in the kernel > tree where this is open coded, and I just added one more in the STM class. > > The naming is inspired by memset_p() and memcat(), and partial credit for > it goes to Andy Shevchenko. > > This patch adds the function wrapped in a type-enforcing macro and a test > module. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com> > Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> It would be good to get someone else to review/ack a core function like this, to verify nothing is incorrect. Especially given the fun of off-by-one issues in C we have had over the years... thanks, greg k-h
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