Re: [PATCH 1/4] uaccess: add copy_word_from_user

[H. Peter Anvin]

Steven Rostedt wrote:
> This patch creates a copy_word_from_user function that can copy
> a space delimited word from user space. This puts the code in
> a new lib/uaccess.c file. This keeps the code in a single location
> and may be optimized in the future.

I have a bit of an issue with the naming... at least *I* read this as 
copying a machine word, which made me wonder why you didn't just use 
"get_user".  I would suggest copy_token_from_user or something like that.

	-hpa
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