Re: memcpy.S patch in 64-bit

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 05:08:07PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> > The __copy_user function (in arch/mips64/lib/memcpy.S) calls __bzero.
> > We can't do that because __bzero might modify len, which we want to
> > return in case of an error.
> > The following patch take care of the problem.
> 
>  Hmm, how about simply cloning arch/mips/lib/memcpy.S?  It seems:
> 
> 1. Designed to work on mips64 as well.
> 
> 2. More up to date.
> 
> And it would ease maintenance. 

Right but Carsten's patch is already ready, so I'm going to use it
for now.

  Ralf