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We've a lot of places where we have pairs of form (pointer to end of buffer, amount of space left in front of that). These sit in pairs of variables located next to each other and usually passed by reference. Turn those into instances of new type (struct prepend_buffer) and pass reference to the pair instead of pairs of references to its fields. Declared and initialized by DECLARE_BUFFER(name, buf, buflen). extract_string(prepend_buffer) returns the buffer contents if no overflow has happened, ERR_PTR(ENAMETOOLONG) otherwise. All places where we used to have that boilerplate converted to use of that helper. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.