Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] lib/string.c: add __sysfs_match_string_with_gaps() helper

[Alexandru Ardelean]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 1:13 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 11:52:09AM +0200, Alexandru Ardelean wrote:
> > The original docstring of the __sysfs_match_string() and match_string()
> > helper, implied that -1 could be used to search through NULL terminated
> > arrays, and positive 'n' can be used to go through arrays that may have
> > NULL elements in the middle of the array.
> >
> > This isn't true. Regardless of the value of 'n', the first NULL element in
> > the array.
>
> I can not parse this last sentence, is it missing something?

oh, my bad;
will fix this and send a new version

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h