From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932687AbVIHPR4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 11:17:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932688AbVIHPR4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 11:17:56 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:27841 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932687AbVIHPRz (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2005 11:17:55 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 16:17:54 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jan Beulich Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] add stricmp Message-ID: <20050908151754.GB11067@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Jan Beulich , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <43206F420200007800024455@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43206F420200007800024455@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:05:06PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote: > (Note: Patch also attached because the inline version is certain to get > line wrapped.) > > While strnicmp existed in the set of string support routines, stricmp > didn't, which this patch adjusts. I don't thing we should do case-insenstitive comparims in kernel, and in the few cases where we must (legacy OS fileystem support) it needs to be NLS-capable. But once again we need to see the users anyway. You're adding tons of bloat in your patches without showing us an actually useful user.