On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:33 PM, David Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > You're making other changes here, such as the kstrdup() stuff, > seperate that into another patch.
It's part of the same change. The original code was allocating a buffer, saving the pointer in the name field and then modifying it. Making the code to a kstrdup() gets rid of modifying the const buffer. g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

