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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 1/9] lib: string_helpers: provide kfree_strarray()
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 5:59 PM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, 2020-09-28 at 12:41 +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
> >
> > There's a common pattern of dynamically allocating an array of char
> > pointers and then also dynamically allocating each string in this
> > array. Provide a helper for freeing such a string array with one call.
>
> Isn't this also common for things like ring buffers?
> Why limit this to char *[]?
>

I don't want to add APIs nobody is using. What do you suggest?

Bartosz

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