Re: [PATCH] net: tulip: Remove private "strncmp"

[David Miller]

From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu,  4 Dec 2014 11:30:40 +0100

> The comment says that the built-in strncmp didn't work. That is not
> surprising, as apparently "str" semantics are not really what is
> wanted (hint: de4x5_strncmp only stops when two different bytes are
> encountered or the end is reached; not if either byte happens to be
> 0). de4x5_strncmp is actually a memcmp (except for the signature and
> that bytes are not necessarily treated as unsigned char); since only
> the boolean value of the result is used we can just replace
> de4x5_strncmp with memcmp.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.
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