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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: "Peter Hüwe" <PeterHuewe@gmx.de>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>,
	Ashley Lai <ashley@ashleylai.com>,
	Rajiv Andrade <mail@srajiv.net>,
	Marcel Selhorst <tpmdd@selhorst.net>,
	tpmdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Xiaoyan Zhang <xiaoyan.zhang@intel.com>,
	Gang Wei <gang.wei@intel.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] tpm/tpm_ppi: Do not compare strcmp(a,b) == -1
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:41:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1383162100.9435.39.camel@joe-AO722> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201310302035.36579.PeterHuewe@gmx.de>

On Wed, 2013-10-30 at 20:35 +0100, Peter H�we wrote:
> Hi Joe, Jason

Hi Peter.

> > lib/string.c:strcmp returns only -1,0,1
> > so that's what the arch versions should do too.
> > However, arch implementations do vary...
[]
> I did not pay attention to where cscope did send me 
> - it was arch/x86/boot/string.c which implements it as 
> 
>         while (*s1 || *s2) {
>                 delta = *s2 - *s1;
>                 if (delta)
>                         return delta;
>                 s1++;
>                 s2++;
>         }
> 
> Although I know that this is not used here, 
> it differs from the version in lib. (Maybe worth changing?)

The arch/... assembly versions don't always
return -1, 0, 1 so I don't think it's worth
it to change all of those.




  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-30 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-30  0:40 [PATCH 1/2] tpm/tpm_ppi: Do not compare strcmp(a,b) == -1 Peter Huewe
2013-10-30  0:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] tpm/tpm_ppi: Check return value of acpi_get_name Peter Huewe
2013-10-30  1:05 ` [PATCH 1/2] tpm/tpm_ppi: Do not compare strcmp(a,b) == -1 Joe Perches
2013-10-30 19:35   ` Peter Hüwe
2013-10-30 19:41     ` Joe Perches [this message]
2013-10-31 12:22       ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2013-10-30 16:45 ` [tpmdd-devel] [PATCH 1/2] tpm/tpm_ppi: Do not compare strcmp(a, b) " Jason Gunthorpe
2013-10-30 19:46 ` [PATCH 1/2 v2] tpm/tpm_ppi: Do not compare strcmp(a,b) " Peter Huewe

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