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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 13:19:08 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] lib/string: introduce match_string() helper
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On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 03:09:09PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> There are users of a simple string matching in the array. Let's do a common
> helper for that.
 
What's the reason for making it return -ENODATA when no match is found?
That one of the callers wants to return that as error in such case?
At least one other is returning -EINVAL in the same situation...