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From: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 02/11] lib: charset: add u16_strncmp()
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 09:16:17 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190425001615.GC7158@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fbb83387-7be8-6b4d-a3ae-6b83623bf8ed@gmx.de>

On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 08:36:09PM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> On 4/24/19 8:30 AM, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> >u16_strncmp() works like u16_strcmp() but only at most n characters
> >(in u16) are compared.
> >This function will be used in a later patch.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
> 
> The only usage of u16_strncmp() is in patch 3.
> u16_strcmp() is not used at all.

The fact is that u16_strcmp() is already used in my 'secure boot' patch
and then I moved on to non-volatile patch.

> In patch 3 'memcmp(var_name16, L"BOOT", 8)' will do the job.
> 
> I am not sure if in other cases we wouldn't prefer to compare Unicode
> codepoints instead of u16.

That is my concern, too :)

> So I suggest to skip patches 1 and 2 and use memcmp() in patch 3.

Okay, patch#1 will be planned to be included in 'secure boot' patch.

-Takahiro Akashi


> Best regards
> 
> Heinrich

  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-25  0:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-24  6:30 [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 00/11] efi_loader: non-volatile variables support AKASHI Takahiro
2019-04-24  6:30 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 01/11] lib: charset: add u16_strcmp() AKASHI Takahiro
2019-04-24 16:24   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2019-04-25  0:38     ` AKASHI Takahiro
2019-04-24  6:30 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 02/11] lib: charset: add u16_strncmp() AKASHI Takahiro
2019-04-24 17:40   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2019-04-24 18:36   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2019-04-25  0:16     ` AKASHI Takahiro [this message]
2019-04-24  6:30 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 03/11] cmd: efidebug: rework "boot dump" sub-command using GetNextVariableName() AKASHI Takahiro
2019-04-24 20:13   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2019-04-25  0:30     ` AKASHI Takahiro
2019-04-24  6:30 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 04/11] efi_loader: set OsIndicationsSupported at init AKASHI Takahiro
2019-04-24  6:30 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 05/11] env: save UEFI non-volatile variables in dedicated storage AKASHI Takahiro
2019-04-25 18:44   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2019-04-24  6:30 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 06/11] efi_loader: variable: support non-volatile attribute AKASHI Takahiro
2019-04-24  6:30 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 07/11] efi_loader: variable: split UEFI variables from U-Boot environment AKASHI Takahiro
2019-04-24  6:30 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 08/11] efi_loader: load saved non-volatile variables at init AKASHI Takahiro
2019-04-24  6:30 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 09/11] efi_loader: bootmgr: handle BootNext as non-volatile AKASHI Takahiro
2019-04-24  6:30 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 10/11] cmd: env: add -nv option for UEFI non-volatile variable AKASHI Takahiro
2019-04-24  6:30 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 11/11] cmd: efidebug: make some boot variables non-volatile AKASHI Takahiro
2019-04-24 22:12 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 00/11] efi_loader: non-volatile variables support Heinrich Schuchardt
2019-04-25  1:12   ` AKASHI Takahiro

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