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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 10:12:41 +0900
From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/8] lib/string: introduce match_string() helper
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Andy Shevchenko wrote:
[..]
> >
> > strncmp() case seems to be quite common.
> 
> Like I answered to Rasmus, please, provide real examples.

[..]
> > int nmatch_string(array, array_size, string, string_len)
> > {
> >       do {
> >               strncmp();
> >       } while ();
> > }
> >
> > int match_string(array, array_size, string)
> > {
> >       return nmatch_string(array, array_size, string,
> > strlen(string));
> > }
> 
> See above.

after some quick and inaccurate grepping, well, probably you're right - not worth it.

arch/mips/bcm63xx/boards/board_bcm963xx.c  void __init board_prom_init(void)
net/irda/irnet/irnet_irda.c   irnet_dname_to_daddr()
arch/powerpc/sysdev/ppc4xx_cpm.c static ssize_t cpm_idle_store()
arch/x86/ras/mce_amd_inj.c static int __set_inj
drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/msu.c mode_store
drivers/pci/pcie/aer/ecrc.c void pcie_ecrc_get_policy
drivers/pci/pcie/aspm.c pcie_aspm_set_policy
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c aic7xxx_setup
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_osm.c aic79xx_setup
drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c static int get_fc_##title##_match
drivers/staging/android/ion/hisilicon/hi6220_ion.c get_type_by_name
drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lmv/lproc_lmv.c placement_name2policy
drivers/xen/sys-hypervisor.c pmu_mode_store

	-ss