Re: struct_cpy() and kAFS (was: Re: Linux 2.6.8-rc1)

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:11:20AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >  > David Howells:
> >  >   o kAFS automount support
> > 
> >  After this change, all archs need to provide struct_cpy() to make AFS compile,
> >  while currently only ia32 and amd64 provide it.
> 
> Seems a strange thing to do.  Why not rely on the type system?

struct_cpy is used nowehre except in arch/i386/kernel/process.c and AFS,
so we should probably better kill it before people start using it in other
places.

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