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authorRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>2014-10-14 02:54:25 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-10-14 04:18:23 +0400
commitcd514e727b18ff4d189b8e268db13729a4175091 (patch)
treefd860bbdc5e6e7d884196bccabbfd4d42240e116 /include/linux/string.h
parente48510f45107613bf14060eeabd658c49a044242 (diff)
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lib/string.c: remove duplicated function
lib/string.c contains two functions, strnicmp and strncasecmp, which do roughly the same thing, namely compare two strings case-insensitively up to a given bound. They have slightly different implementations, but the only important difference is that strncasecmp doesn't handle len==0 appropriately; it effectively becomes strcasecmp in that case. strnicmp correctly says that two strings are always equal in their first 0 characters. strncasecmp is the POSIX name for this functionality. So rename the non-broken function to the standard name. To minimize the impact on the rest of the kernel (and since both are exported to modules), make strnicmp a wrapper for strncasecmp. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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