First kernel patch (optimization)

From: Eric Curtin
Date: Tue Sep 15 2015 - 15:53:39 EST


My first kernel patch, hope I did everything correctly! Instead of calling strlen on every iteration of the for loop, just call it once instead and store in a variable.

Signed-off-by: Eric Curtin <ericcurtin17@xxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/tools/usb/usbip/src/usbip_detach.c b/tools/usb/usbip/src/usbip_detach.c
index 05c6d15..9db9d21 100644
--- a/tools/usb/usbip/src/usbip_detach.c
+++ b/tools/usb/usbip/src/usbip_detach.c
@@ -47,7 +47,9 @@ static int detach_port(char *port)
uint8_t portnum;
char path[PATH_MAX+1];

- for (unsigned int i = 0; i < strlen(port); i++)
+ unsigned int port_len = strlen(port);
+
+ for (unsigned int i = 0; i < port_len; i++)
if (!isdigit(port[i])) {
err("invalid port %s", port);
return -1;

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