Hi,
This patch creates a new kstrdup library function and changes the "local" implementations in several places to use this function.
Arkadiusz Miskiewicz reported that this breaks compilation under PPC.
Apparently, PPC builds a bootloader that links against lib.a but doesn't expect any dependencies on slab. Since kstrdup calls kmalloc, this breaks compilation.
I can fix this by moving kstrdup into slab.c. This way this is treated as an "allocation" function instead of a string function, so it makes some sense to do this.
Andrew, do you prefer an incremental patch against the current tree, or a single clean patch against the current tree with all the current kstrdup patches taken out?
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