Re: [PATCH] Consolidate check_signature

From: Al Viro
Date: Sun Oct 08 2006 - 16:24:46 EST


On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 01:21:47PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:05:55 -0600
> Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > There's nothing arch-specific about check_signature(), so move it to
> > <linux/io.h>. Use a cross between the Alpha and i386 implementations
> > as the generic one.
>
> It wuld have been nice to have uninlined it too. And to have given
> it a less crappy name.

memcmp_withio(), to follow the general style?
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