Messages in this thread |  | | From | Rasmus Villemoes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Introduce strreplace | Date | Tue, 09 Jun 2015 09:25:50 +0200 |
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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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