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| author | Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> | 2013-04-30 15:27:30 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-04-30 17:04:03 -0700 |
| commit | 16c7fa05829e8b91db48e3539c5d6ff3c2b18a23 (patch) | |
| tree | 6658e9f27c033e5f6de19284fe9a6b8485360aa6 /lib/Makefile | |
| parent | e1d12f327037a59e06c66520951ab4e0bd29f9c4 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-16c7fa05829e8b91db48e3539c5d6ff3c2b18a23.tar.gz lwn-16c7fa05829e8b91db48e3539c5d6ff3c2b18a23.zip | |
lib/string_helpers: introduce generic string_unescape
There are several places in kernel where modules unescapes input to convert
C-Style Escape Sequences into byte codes.
The patch provides generic implementation of such approach. Test cases are
also included into the patch.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clarify comment]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export get_random_int() to modules]
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Brannon <chris@the-brannons.com>
Cc: Kirk Reiser <kirk@braille.uwo.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Makefile')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Makefile | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile index 6e2cc561f761..23c9a0fe74fc 100644 --- a/lib/Makefile +++ b/lib/Makefile @@ -22,8 +22,10 @@ lib-y += kobject.o klist.o obj-y += bcd.o div64.o sort.o parser.o halfmd4.o debug_locks.o random32.o \ bust_spinlocks.o hexdump.o kasprintf.o bitmap.o scatterlist.o \ - string_helpers.o gcd.o lcm.o list_sort.o uuid.o flex_array.o \ + gcd.o lcm.o list_sort.o uuid.o flex_array.o \ bsearch.o find_last_bit.o find_next_bit.o llist.o memweight.o kfifo.o +obj-y += string_helpers.o +obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_STRING_HELPERS) += test-string_helpers.o obj-y += kstrtox.o obj-$(CONFIG_TEST_KSTRTOX) += test-kstrtox.o |