Re: [PATCH 0/3] Use kasprintf

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Mon Oct 18 2010 - 16:03:04 EST


On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Paulo Marques wrote:

> Julia Lawall wrote:
> > These patches convert a sequence of kmalloc and memcpy to use kasprintf
> > instead.
>
> Aren't these patches just a more convoluted way of doing a kstrdup?
>
> I would imagine that a kasprintf would make more sense when the format
> string is more complex than "%s", or am I missing something?

They have all already been changed to either kmemdup or kstrdup.

thanks,
julia
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