Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] lib/string: introduce ascii2utf16le() helper

[Richard Leitner]

On 02/06/2017 04:12 PM, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Feb 2017, Richard Leitner wrote:
> 
>> For USB string descriptors we need to convert ASCII strings to UTF16-LE.
>> Therefore make a simple helper function (based on ascii2desc from
>> drivers/usb/core/hcd.c) for that purpose.
> 
> You know, we already have utf8s_to_utf16s() in fs/nls/nls_base.c.  
> Maybe it doesn't do exactly what you want, but it should be pretty 
> close.  Adding another helper function to do essentially the same thing 
> seems unnecessary.

Thanks for that pointer. I totally agree with you.

So it would be OK to include linux/nls.h and use utf8s_to_utf16s() in
drivers/usb/{core/hcd.c,misc/usb251xb.c}?

Thanks & regards,
Richard L