Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] treewide: Align match_string() with sysfs_match_string()

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Jun 04 2024 - 14:48:46 EST


On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 at 11:25, Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> (I believe that the new _match_string(str1, size, str2) deserves a better name,
> but since I'm bad with naming stuff, I don't have any good suggestion)

I hated the enormous cc list, so I didn't reply to all. But clearly
everybody else is just doing so.

Anyway, here's my NAK for this patch with explanation:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wg5F99-GZPETsasJd0JB0JGcdmmPeHRxCtT4_i83h8avg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

and part of it was the naming, but there were other oddities there too.

Linus