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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add stricmp
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 16:17:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050908151754.GB11067@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43206F420200007800024455@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com>

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:05:06PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> (Note: Patch also attached because the inline version is certain to get
> line wrapped.)
> 
> While strnicmp existed in the set of string support routines, stricmp
> didn't, which this patch adjusts.

I don't thing we should do case-insenstitive comparims in kernel, and
in the few cases where we must (legacy OS fileystem support) it needs
to be NLS-capable.

But once again we need to see the users anyway.  You're adding tons of
bloat in your patches without showing us an actually useful user.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-08 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-08 15:05 [PATCH] add stricmp Jan Beulich
2005-09-08 15:17 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-09-08 15:28   ` Jan Beulich
2005-09-08 15:36     ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-08 16:04     ` Alan Cox
2005-09-08 15:45       ` Jan Beulich
2005-09-08 16:37         ` Alan Cox
2005-09-08 16:28           ` viro

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