Re: memcpy.S patch in 64-bit

[Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>]

"Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Carsten Langgaard 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.
>

If it works then it's the right thing to do, so please go a head :-)


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