Re: [RFC] [QUESTION] Stuff to do for string

[Josh Law]

On 22 April 2026 17:12:37 BST, Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 03:57:16PM +0100, Josh Law wrote:
>> Hello, (this is my first RFC, so maybe cc is bad, but yeah)
>> 
>> What do you guys have planned/would like me to have a look at doing in
>> lib/string.c
>> 
>> I am home from school so I am virtually free
>
>Arbitrary things that came to my mind (no particular order)
>
>- Get rid of strlcat()

Yeah, I'm working on that actually :D, privately, I sorta stopped cuz i
thought kees was gonna do that, if not, not issue!

>- Clean up include/linux/string.h
>  a) drop extern for functions
>  b) put the headers it includes into an order and follow IWYU

Hmm, yeah, I see it's kind of a mess (in a polite way) 

>- kill memscan() in favour of memchr() / memchr_inv()

Hmm, maybe, is there a crazy amount of files that call memscan()?

I'll also (try ;), yk, school :( ) to review patches for your file. Ig
it's the best I do for you lot right now, (I am starting to review most
if not all patches in lib), e.g:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/AA9B2A7E-A88D-457C-8244-50087631B347@xxxxxxxxx
:)


Thanks!