There are several places in the kernel that use functionality like basename(3)
with the exception: in case of '/foo/bar/' we expect to get an empty string.
Let's do it common helper for them.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevche...@linux.intel.com>
---
include/linux/string.h | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index 6301258..ac889c5 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -143,4 +143,15 @@ static inline bool strstarts(const char *str, const char
*prefix)
extern size_t memweight(const void *ptr, size_t bytes);
+/**
+ * kbasename - return the last part of a pathname.
+ *
+ * @path: path to extract the filename from.
+ */
+static inline const char *kbasename(const char *path)
+{
+ const char *tail = strrchr(path, '/');
+ return tail ? tail + 1 : path;
+}
+
#endif /* _LINUX_STRING_H_ */
--
1.7.10.4
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