From: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: "Peter Hüwe" <PeterHuewe@gmx.de>,
"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: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:22:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1383222136.26923.24.camel@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1383162100.9435.39.camel@joe-AO722>
Hi all!
On Mit, 2013-10-30 at 12:41 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
[...]
> 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.
FWIW user-space strcmp() - e.g. as in
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/strcmp.html but
also (glibcs) manual page- doesn't guarantee -1 or +1 either,
MfG,
Bernd
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-31 12:22 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
2013-10-31 12:22 ` Bernd Petrovitsch [this message]
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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