lib/string.c: remove duplicated function
authorRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:54:25 +0000 (15:54 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 14 Oct 2014 00:18:23 +0000 (02:18 +0200)
commitcd514e727b18ff4d189b8e268db13729a4175091
treefd860bbdc5e6e7d884196bccabbfd4d42240e116
parente48510f45107613bf14060eeabd658c49a044242
lib/string.c: remove duplicated function

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: Rasmus 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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
lib/string.c