On Tuesday, September 16, 2014 10:51:26 PM Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > The kernel used to contain two functions for length-delimited, > case-insensitive string comparison, strnicmp with correct semantics > and a slightly buggy strncasecmp. The latter is the POSIX name, so > strnicmp was renamed to strncasecmp, and strnicmp made into a wrapper > for the new strncasecmp to avoid breaking existing users. > > To allow the compat wrapper strnicmp to be removed at some point in > the future, and to avoid the extra indirection cost, do > s/strnicmp/strncasecmp/g. > > Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]> > Cc: Daniel Lezcano <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]>
Queued up for 3.18, thanks! > --- > drivers/cpuidle/governor.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/governor.c b/drivers/cpuidle/governor.c > index ca89412..fb9f511 100644 > --- a/drivers/cpuidle/governor.c > +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/governor.c > @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ static struct cpuidle_governor * > __cpuidle_find_governor(const char *str) > struct cpuidle_governor *gov; > > list_for_each_entry(gov, &cpuidle_governors, governor_list) > - if (!strnicmp(str, gov->name, CPUIDLE_NAME_LEN)) > + if (!strncasecmp(str, gov->name, CPUIDLE_NAME_LEN)) > return gov; > > return NULL; > -- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
