diff --git a/drivers/ddk/Makefile b/drivers/ddk/Makefile
index 86604f6e57..b22496a98e 100644
--- a/drivers/ddk/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/ddk/Makefile
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ NAME_SRCS:=  				\
 		linux/list_sort.c	\
 		linux/dmapool.c		\
 		linux/ctype.c		\
+		linux/string.c		\
 		malloc/malloc.c		\
 		stdio/vsprintf.c	\
 		string/_memmove.S 	\
diff --git a/drivers/ddk/linux/string.c b/drivers/ddk/linux/string.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fe0c5ca6e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/ddk/linux/string.c
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+/*
+ *  linux/lib/string.c
+ *
+ *  Copyright (C) 1991, 1992  Linus Torvalds
+ */
+
+/*
+ * stupid library routines.. The optimized versions should generally be found
+ * as inline code in <asm-xx/string.h>
+ *
+ * These are buggy as well..
+ *
+ * * Fri Jun 25 1999, Ingo Oeser <ioe@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
+ * -  Added strsep() which will replace strtok() soon (because strsep() is
+ *    reentrant and should be faster). Use only strsep() in new code, please.
+ *
+ * * Sat Feb 09 2002, Jason Thomas <jason@topic.com.au>,
+ *                    Matthew Hawkins <matt@mh.dropbear.id.au>
+ * -  Kissed strtok() goodbye
+ */
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
+#include <linux/ctype.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+
+
+#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRLCPY
+/**
+ * strlcpy - Copy a %NUL terminated string into a sized buffer
+ * @dest: Where to copy the string to
+ * @src: Where to copy the string from
+ * @size: size of destination buffer
+ *
+ * Compatible with *BSD: the result is always a valid
+ * NUL-terminated string that fits in the buffer (unless,
+ * of course, the buffer size is zero). It does not pad
+ * out the result like strncpy() does.
+ */
+size_t strlcpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t size)
+{
+    size_t ret = strlen(src);
+
+    if (size) {
+        size_t len = (ret >= size) ? size - 1 : ret;
+        memcpy(dest, src, len);
+        dest[len] = '\0';
+    }
+    return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(strlcpy);
+#endif
+