Re: [PATCH 15/22] Input: edt-ft5x06 - Replace strnicmp with strncasecmp

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Wed Sep 17 2014 - 12:26:19 EST


On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:51:29PM +0200, 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: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-input@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thank you.

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Dmitry
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