On Wed, Aug 27 2014, Dan Carpenter <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 11:13:16AM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: >> Anyway, I was also planning on sending tree-wide patches doing >> s/strnicmp/strncasecmp/, and then removing the hack from string.h, but I >> first wanted to get feedback on the first patch and maybe some guidance >> on how to properly deal with the module issue (e.g., does the kernel >> need to export a strnicmp symbol forever?). > > Once we remove the in kernel users then we can remove the function. > Don't worry about out of tree modules.
OK, that makes everything simpler. Any objections to the first patch? Andrew, could you take it through your tree? Thanks, Rasmus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
