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

[Dan Aloni <da-x@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:41:27AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 19:46:24 +0300
> Dan Aloni <da-x@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Can you please take a look and comment?
> 
> I commented already and I said "putting a private copy
> of a generic function like strdup() in the middle of
> the networking code is inappropriate."

For some unknown reason I didn't get that response.

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.

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Dan Aloni
da-x@xxxxxxx