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    lib/string.c: remove duplicated function · cd514e72
    Rasmus Villemoes authored
    
    
    lib/string.c contains two functions, strnicmp and strncasecmp, which do
    roughly the same thing, namely compare two strings case-insensitively up
    to a given bound.  They have slightly different implementations, but the
    only important difference is that strncasecmp doesn't handle len==0
    appropriately; it effectively becomes strcasecmp in that case.  strnicmp
    correctly says that two strings are always equal in their first 0
    characters.
    
    strncasecmp is the POSIX name for this functionality.  So rename the
    non-broken function to the standard name.  To minimize the impact on the
    rest of the kernel (and since both are exported to modules), make strnicmp
    a wrapper for strncasecmp.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
    Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
    Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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