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authorAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>2008-07-23 21:26:44 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-24 10:47:13 -0700
commite108526e77aa41c89b3be96f75d97615db2b751c (patch)
tree11f3041d170d32ea49894527aa119016d76716b5 /include/linux/string.h
parent338b9bb3adac0d2c5a1e180491d9b001d624c402 (diff)
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move memory_read_from_buffer() from fs.h to string.h
James Bottomley warns that inclusion of linux/fs.h in a low level driver was always a danger signal. This patch moves memory_read_from_buffer() from fs.h to string.h and fixes includes in existing memory_read_from_buffer() users. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Cc: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/string.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/string.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index efdc445..810d80d 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -111,5 +111,8 @@ extern void argv_free(char **argv);
extern bool sysfs_streq(const char *s1, const char *s2);
+extern ssize_t memory_read_from_buffer(void *to, size_t count, loff_t *ppos,
+ const void *from, size_t available);
+
#endif
#endif /* _LINUX_STRING_H_ */
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