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Why does this need to be done in the kernel?

Why does this need to be done in the kernel?

Posted Oct 9, 2010 12:43 UTC (Sat) by johill (subscriber, #25196)
In reply to: Why does this need to be done in the kernel? by tux1968
Parent article: Organizing kernel messages

You want to calculate the CRC on the format string, not on the formatted string, and userspace never has access to the former at runtime.


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