Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] [RFC] copy_strtok_from_user

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > yes. Note that strsep() is the preferred API. (in fact it's 
> > the only such string API that is in the kernel)
> 
> btw., for larger strings we cannot really copy into the kernel i 
> suspect. We'd have to kmalloc() and that adds overhead, etc.
> 
> Nevertheless, copy_strsep_from_user() would be the symmetric API 
> here.

OK, I'll rebase again calling it copy_strsep_from_user. And I'll change 
the implementation to use copy_from_user/strsep

-- Steve

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