Re: [PATCH v4] lib/string: Introduce sysfs_streqcase

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 08:44:39 +0200 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 10:05:02PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu,  8 Apr 2021 15:06:05 +0200 Gioh Kim <gi-oh.kim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > As the name shows, it checks if strings are equal in case insensitive
> > > manner.
> > 
> > Peh.  Who would die if we simply made sysfs_streq() case-insensitive?
> 
> I doubt anyone, let's do that instead.

There's a risk that people will write scripts/config/etc on a 5.13+
kernel and then find that they malfunction on earlier kernels...