From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933947AbaH0KRi (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2014 06:17:38 -0400 Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:24239 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933623AbaH0KRg (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2014 06:17:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 13:17:27 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter To: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Grant Likely , Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 2/2] lib: string: Make all calls to strnicmp into calls to strncasecmp Message-ID: <20140827101727.GH5046@mwanda> References: <1409124962-11527-1-git-send-email-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> <1409124962-11527-3-git-send-email-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> <20140827090537.GL5100@mwanda> <87sikie1n7.fsf@rasmusvillemoes.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87sikie1n7.fsf@rasmusvillemoes.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 11:13:16AM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > Anyway, I was also planning on sending tree-wide patches doing > s/strnicmp/strncasecmp/, and then removing the hack from string.h, but I > first wanted to get feedback on the first patch and maybe some guidance > on how to properly deal with the module issue (e.g., does the kernel > need to export a strnicmp symbol forever?). Once we remove the in kernel users then we can remove the function. Don't worry about out of tree modules. regards, dan carpenter