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From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] mm/util: Rephrase documentation for kmemdup_nul()
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On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 03:20:02PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> kmemdup_nul() strictly speaking is not related to the string API,
> while being quite useful for it. Rephrase documentation to make it
> clear that input data can be anything (any data, which may contain
> any bytes, including 0x00).

That's not a useful thing to do, though.  This rephrasing you've
done is more confusing than the original.