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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 0/8] Introduce strreplace
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On Tue, Jun 09 2015, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 01:26:48AM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
>> Doing single-character substitution on an entire string is open-coded
>> in a few places, sometimes in a rather suboptimal way. This introduces
>> a trivial helper, strreplace, for this task along with a few example
>> conversions.
>>
>> Andrew, can I get you to take 1/8 through the mm tree? I'm not sure
>> what the easiest path is for the remaining patches.
>
> This is not super urgent, right?

Right, not urgent at all.

> So we could let 1/8 go into mainline, and then the rest of the patches
> could go in the next release. That would be the simplest, although it
> would drag out how long it would take for strreplace to be used
> everywhere.

Sure, though it would be a little weird to have a helper with no users
until 4.3 comes out.

Rasmus


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