On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 19:55:59 +0300
Dan Aloni [off-list ref] wrote:

The private copy of strdup() is something that I'd also wouldn't
want, but I don't have much choice. Please read a recent 
thread in lkml regarding strdup() consolidation.

Ugh, I'm afraid to look...  I guess the controversy is
over the allocation function, what GFP_* flags it should
use etc.?

For now just call the thing in your patch netdev_name_dup() or
something like that.  I can't handle having something named
"strdup()" in there :-)