linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] mm/util: Rephrase documentation for kmemdup

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Message-ID: <YPVzptA7JYMyWszg@casper.infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 19 Jul 2021 13:44:22 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] mm/util: Rephrase documentation for kmemdup_nul()
 to clarify input

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 03:20:02PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> kmemdup_nul() strictly speaking is not related to the string API,
> while being quite useful for it. Rephrase documentation to make it
> clear that input data can be anything (any data, which may contain
> any bytes, including 0x00).

That's not a useful thing to do, though.  This rephrasing you've
done is more confusing than the original.