Re: [PATCH 35/37] drivers/block/aoe: Use kmemdup

From: Ed Cashin
Date: Sun May 16 2010 - 08:59:18 EST


On May 15, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Julia Lawall wrote:

> From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
>
> Use kmemdup when some other buffer is immediately copied into the
> allocated region.

I have seen this patch but have no comment about it specifically.

(Because the argument about whether this kind of change
adds value in general has already taken place. I'd say no, but that's
based on a maybe faulty idea that if folks weren't doing this they'd have
more time for reviewing patches, etc.)

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Ed Cashin
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