Re: [BK PATCH 2.6] repost, fix sysctl breakage during network device renaming, for ipv4

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 19:55:59 +0300
Dan Aloni <da-x@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> The private copy of strdup() is something that I'd also wouldn't
> want, but I don't have much choice. Please read a recent 
> thread in lkml regarding strdup() consolidation.

Ugh, I'm afraid to look...  I guess the controversy is
over the allocation function, what GFP_* flags it should
use etc.?

For now just call the thing in your patch netdev_name_dup() or
something like that.  I can't handle having something named
"strdup()" in there :-)