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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2020-02-24 08:39:55 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2020-02-24 08:39:55 +0100 |
| commit | ba08cf452f3493e96793c9fec4ebb45e7101a0c0 (patch) | |
| tree | 61200038de5d9c6ba50dadfa7f065d029fa06174 /lib/string.c | |
| parent | e24cd4e6d6aa3ca741cdfdfc01118c4016acebea (diff) | |
| parent | f8788d86ab28f61f7b46eb6be375f8a726783636 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-ba08cf452f3493e96793c9fec4ebb45e7101a0c0.tar.gz lwn-ba08cf452f3493e96793c9fec4ebb45e7101a0c0.zip | |
Merge 5.6-rc3 into tty-next
We want the tty fixes in here as well.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c index f607b967d978..6012c385fb31 100644 --- a/lib/string.c +++ b/lib/string.c @@ -699,6 +699,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysfs_streq); * @n: number of strings in the array or -1 for NULL terminated arrays * @string: string to match with * + * This routine will look for a string in an array of strings up to the + * n-th element in the array or until the first NULL element. + * + * Historically the value of -1 for @n, was used to search in arrays that + * are NULL terminated. However, the function does not make a distinction + * when finishing the search: either @n elements have been compared OR + * the first NULL element was found. + * * Return: * index of a @string in the @array if matches, or %-EINVAL otherwise. */ @@ -727,6 +735,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(match_string); * * Returns index of @str in the @array or -EINVAL, just like match_string(). * Uses sysfs_streq instead of strcmp for matching. + * + * This routine will look for a string in an array of strings up to the + * n-th element in the array or until the first NULL element. + * + * Historically the value of -1 for @n, was used to search in arrays that + * are NULL terminated. However, the function does not make a distinction + * when finishing the search: either @n elements have been compared OR + * the first NULL element was found. */ int __sysfs_match_string(const char * const *array, size_t n, const char *str) { |