From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
To: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <ibm-acpi@hmh.eng.br>,
ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/22] thinkpad_acpi: Replace strnicmp with strncasecmp
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 10:12:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2auis21.fsf@rasmusvillemoes.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140916220857.GA12780@vmdeb7> (Darren Hart's message of "Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:08:57 -0700")
On Wed, Sep 17 2014, Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:51:31PM +0200, 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.
>
> When was this done? As of this morning I still see them as independent functions
> in lib/string.c.
It will be in 3.18. I thought it had made it to linux-next, but should
have double-checked (and included the 3.18 info in the email); sorry.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1775150/focus=1775152
Rasmus
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2014-09-16 20:51 ` [PATCH 17/22] thinkpad_acpi: Replace strnicmp with strncasecmp Rasmus Villemoes
2014-09-16 22:08 ` Darren Hart
2014-09-17 8:12 ` Rasmus Villemoes [this message]
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