Re: [PATCH 1/2] slob: move kstrdup to lib/string.c

[Olaf Hering]

 On Wed, Nov 02, Paul Mackeras wrote:

> Andrew Morton writes:
> 
> > > That doesn't sound kosher, have a pointer?
> > > 
> > 
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/8/128
> 
> Yes, we currently use bits of lib/ in the zImage boot wrapper.  I
> suspect we used to have our own string routines for the boot wrapper
> until somebody said "why do we have all this code duplicated" and
> cleaned it up. :)

We cant continue to use files from lib/ in arch/powerpc/boot when they
start to use kernel internals like kmalloc. I converted a few
zlib_inflate files with sed already. But things will get really ugly if
we have to do more on-the-fly modifications. After all,
arch/$ARCH/boot is no kernel code, it has to be standalone.
Maybe we should just have no arch/powerpc/boot.

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