Messages in this thread | | | From | Rasmus Villemoes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH/RFC 2/2] lib: string: Make all calls to strnicmp into calls to strncasecmp | Date | Sat, 30 Aug 2014 20:11:32 +0200 |
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On Wed, Aug 27 2014, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 11:13:16AM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: >> Anyway, I was also planning on sending tree-wide patches doing >> s/strnicmp/strncasecmp/, and then removing the hack from string.h, but I >> first wanted to get feedback on the first patch and maybe some guidance >> on how to properly deal with the module issue (e.g., does the kernel >> need to export a strnicmp symbol forever?). > > Once we remove the in kernel users then we can remove the function. > Don't worry about out of tree modules.
OK, that makes everything simpler. Any objections to the first patch? Andrew, could you take it through your tree?
Thanks, Rasmus
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