Re: [PATCH] linux/string.h: Introduce streq macro.

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Apr 26 2011 - 15:37:28 EST


On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 16:21 -0300, Thiago Farina wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 03:17:48PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 22:05 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 03:49:49PM -0300, Thiago Farina wrote:
> >
> >> > > /**
> >> > > + * streq - Are two strings equal?
> >> > > + * @a: first string
> >> > > + * @b: second string
> >> > > + *
> >> > > + * Example:
> >> > > + * if (streq(argv[1], "--help"))
> >> > > + * printf("%s\n", "This help");
> >>
> >> Userspace example?
> >
> > The point is that function is trivial, and if someone doesn't
> > understand it, he should read some Kernighan and Ritchie first.
> >
>
> I'm fine to remove (should I Steven?). I don't care about the example.
> People reading the code here knows what is this for.

Replace it with something like:

* Use this: streq(a, b)
* instead of: strcmp(a, b) == 0 or !strcmp(a, b)
*
* This makes the code more readable and less error prone.

-- Steve


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