From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752065AbbIOGx5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Sep 2015 02:53:57 -0400 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([134.134.136.65]:6397 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751823AbbIOGxz (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Sep 2015 02:53:55 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.17,533,1437462000"; d="scan'208,223";a="769215186" From: Andy Shevchenko To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo , Andrew Morton , David Airlie , Rasmus Villemoes , Mika Westerberg Cc: Andy Shevchenko Subject: [PATCH v1 1/3] lib/string: introduce match_string() helper Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 09:53:49 +0300 Message-Id: <1442300031-107677-2-git-send-email-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.5.1 In-Reply-To: <1442300031-107677-1-git-send-email-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> References: <1442300031-107677-1-git-send-email-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>From time to time we have to match a string in an array. Make a simple helper for that purpose. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko --- include/linux/string.h | 7 +++++++ lib/string.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h index a8d90db..15e6116 100644 --- a/include/linux/string.h +++ b/include/linux/string.h @@ -126,6 +126,13 @@ extern void argv_free(char **argv); extern bool sysfs_streq(const char *s1, const char *s2); extern int strtobool(const char *s, bool *res); +int match_string(const char * const *array, size_t len, const char *string); + +static inline int match_stringnul(const char * const *array, const char *string) +{ + return match_string(array, 0, string); +} + #ifdef CONFIG_BINARY_PRINTF int vbin_printf(u32 *bin_buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args); int bstr_printf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, const u32 *bin_buf); diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c index 13d1e84..0771359 100644 --- a/lib/string.c +++ b/lib/string.c @@ -542,6 +542,32 @@ bool sysfs_streq(const char *s1, const char *s2) EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysfs_streq); /** + * match_string - matches given string in an array + * @array: array of strings + * @len: number of strings in the array or 0 for NULL terminated arrays + * @string: string to match with + * + * Return: + * index of a @string in the array if matches, or -1 otherwise. + */ +int match_string(const char * const *array, size_t len, const char *string) +{ + int index = 0; + const char *item; + + do { + item = array[index]; + if (!item) + break; + if (!strcmp(item, string)) + return index; + } while (++index < len || !len); + + return -1; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(match_string); + +/** * strtobool - convert common user inputs into boolean values * @s: input string * @res: result -- 2.5.1