Re: [PATCH] remove usage of memmem from scripts/kallsyms.c

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Jun 19 2007 - 15:05:23 EST


On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 05:15:56PM +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
>
> The only in-kernel user of "memmem" is scripts/kallsyms.c and it only
> uses it to find tokens that are 2 bytes in size. It is trivial to
> replace it with a simple function that finds 2-byte tokens.
>
> This should help users from systems that don't have the memmem GNU
> extension available.

Please add a comment describing why it's there so that it's not ripped
out again by the first janitor looking over the code.

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