From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>,
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] string: Make strprefix() const-qualifier-generic
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 08:32:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <64aa89daf23821f95780813fe96882ff61688578.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35bf6672f84f07de3f40e8db9e7fcfd643894fec.1794323750.git.alx@kernel.org>
On Tue, 2026-11-10 at 16:33 +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
no commit description on proposed patch
> Suggested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
> ---
> include/linux/string.h | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
> index 9e59f9697c9e..55ca4cb5122c 100644
> --- a/include/linux/string.h
> +++ b/include/linux/string.h
> @@ -590,7 +590,9 @@ void memcpy_and_pad(void *dest, size_t dest_len, const void *src, size_t count,
> * * @s+strlen(@prefix) if @s starts with @prefix
> * * NULL if @s does not start with @prefix
> */
> -static inline char *strprefix(const char *s, const char *prefix)
> +#define strprefix(s, pfx) const_cast(CQChar_of(s) *, strprefix(s, pfx))
> +
> +static inline char *(strprefix)(const char *s, const char *prefix)
Why introduce a new coding style?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-10 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-10 15:33 [PATCH v3 0/5] Add strprefix() and fix a bug with it Alejandro Colomar
2026-11-10 15:33 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] string: Add strprefix(), and deprecate str_has_prefix() Alejandro Colomar
2026-11-10 15:47 ` Joe Perches
2026-11-10 16:14 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-11-10 15:33 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] device property: Fix fwnode_name_eq() for empty node names Alejandro Colomar
2026-11-10 15:33 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] stddef: Add const_cast() Alejandro Colomar
2026-11-10 15:33 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] string: Add [C]QChar_of() and QVoid_of() Alejandro Colomar
2026-11-10 15:33 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] string: Make strprefix() const-qualifier-generic Alejandro Colomar
2026-11-10 16:32 ` Joe Perches [this message]
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