From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking
<b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 09/22] batman-adv: Replace strnicmp with strncasecmp
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:00:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5419238A.8030001@meshcoding.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1410900696-6481-10-git-send-email-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
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On 16/09/14 22:51, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> 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.
>
> Cc: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
> Cc: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Thank you
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Antonio Quartulli
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2014-09-16 20:51 ` [PATCH 03/22] netfilter: Replace strnicmp with strncasecmp Rasmus Villemoes
2014-09-16 20:51 ` [PATCH 09/22] batman-adv: " Rasmus Villemoes
2014-09-17 6:00 ` Antonio Quartulli [this message]
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