Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH-next 2/6] batman-adv: replace strnicmp with strncasecmp

[Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>]

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On Friday, April 17, 2015 18:34:17 Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
> 
> The kernel used to contain two functions for length-delimited,
> case-insensitive string comparison, strnicmp with correct semantics and
> a slightly buggy strncasecmp.  The latter is the POSIX name, so strnicmp
> was renamed to strncasecmp, and strnicmp made into a wrapper for the new
> strncasecmp to avoid breaking existing users.
> 
> To allow the compat wrapper strnicmp to be removed at some point in the
> future, and to avoid the extra indirection cost, do
> s/strnicmp/strncasecmp/g.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
> Cc: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
> Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
> ---
>  gateway_common.c | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Applied in revision 5ba0a63.

Thanks,
Marek

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