Messages in this thread | | | From | Rasmus Villemoes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 17/22] thinkpad_acpi: Replace strnicmp with strncasecmp | Date | Wed, 17 Sep 2014 10:12:38 +0200 |
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On Wed, Sep 17 2014, Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:51:31PM +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. > > When was this done? As of this morning I still see them as independent functions > in lib/string.c.
It will be in 3.18. I thought it had made it to linux-next, but should have double-checked (and included the 3.18 info in the email); sorry.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1775150/focus=1775152
Rasmus
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