Re: [PATCH/RFC 2/2] lib: string: Make all calls to strnicmp into calls to strncasecmp

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Wed Aug 27 2014 - 05:05:53 EST


On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 09:36:02AM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> The previous patch made strnicmp into a wrapper for strncasecmp. This
> patch makes all in-tree users of strnicmp call strncasecmp directly,
> while still making sure that the strnicmp symbol can be used by
> out-of-tree modules. It should be considered a temporary hack until
> all in-tree callers have been converted.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Won't GCC just do the right thing without this second patch?

regards,
dan carpenter
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