Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 15:09, Matt Domsch wrote:
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:22:29AM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
On Wednesday 26 January 2005 07:05, Matt Domsch wrote:
Module: Add module version and srcversion to the sysfs tree
why do you need this?
a) Tools like DKM
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 05:38:51PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > The autoinstaller feature,
> > for example, which determines if your system has a "good" version of a
> > driver (i.e. if the one provided by DKMS has a newer verson than that
> > provided by the kernel package installed), and
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 14:32 +, Paulo Marques wrote:
> Matt Domsch wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > +static char *strdup(const char *str)
...
> Actually, I've just grep'ed the entire tree and there are about 7
> similar implementations all over the place:
Wow, I'd never noticed. Linus, please apply
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 15:09, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:22:29AM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 January 2005 07:05, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > > Module: Add module version and srcversion to the sysfs tree
> >
> > why do you need this?
>
> a) Tools like DKMS
Matt Domsch wrote:
[...]
+static char *strdup(const char *str)
+{
+ char *s;
+
+ if (!str)
+ return NULL;
+ s = kmalloc(strlen(str)+1, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!s)
+ return NULL;
+ strcpy(s, str);
+ return s;
+}
+
There is already this code in sound/core/memory.c:
char *snd_kmalloc_strdup(const char
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:22:29AM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 January 2005 07:05, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > Module: Add module version and srcversion to the sysfs tree
>
> why do you need this?
a) Tools like DKMS, which deal with changing out individual kernel
modules witho
Hello,
On Wednesday 26 January 2005 07:05, Matt Domsch wrote:
> Module: Add module version and srcversion to the sysfs tree
why do you need this?
Thanks,
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Module: Add module version and srcversion to the sysfs tree
There are two ways one could go with this:
1) strdup() the interesting fields from modinfo section before it is discarded.
That's what this patch does, and what Greg's original patch did too,
despite his reservations about using strdup()
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