On 16 September 2014 13:51, Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]> wrote:
> The kernel used to contain two functions for length-delimited,
> case-insensitive string comparison, strnicmp with correct semantics
> and a slightly buggy strncasecmp. The latter is the POSIX name, so
> strnicmp was renamed to strncasecmp, and strnicmp made into a wrapper
> for the new strncasecmp to avoid breaking existing users.
>
> To allow the compat wrapper strnicmp to be removed at some point in
> the future, and to avoid the extra indirection cost, do
> s/strnicmp/strncasecmp/g.
>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]>
> Cc: Viresh Kumar <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Not really sure about the implementation of these routines but the
changes look fine.

Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <[email protected]>

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