Hi Joe,

> Date: 2026-11-15 08:15:52-0800
> From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
>
> On Sat, 2026-11-14 at 16:24 +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > Except for the changes to "lib/tests/string_kunit.c", this was
> > a scripted change:
> > 
> > 	$ git ls-files \
> > 	| grep '\.[ch]$' \
> > 	| grep -v -e ^tools/ -e ^scripts/ -e ^include/ \
> > 	| xargs grep -l strends \
> > 	| xargs sed -i 's/strends/strsuffix/g';
> 
> You should really use coccinelle (spatch)

For less trivial stuff, I'd go for a semantic patch, but given this is
a simple textual replacement, sed(1) seems simpler, and good enough.
Do you expect any differences between them?

> and this should probably be 2 patches.

Ok; I'll split them.  I'll first adapt the tests, and then the script
will work fully automated.

> 
> https://coccinelle.gitlabpages.inria.fr/website/docs/main_grammar016.html
> 
> something like:
> 
> @@
> expression a1;
> expression a2;
> @@
> 
> -	strends(a1, a2)
> +	strsuffix(a1, a2)

Thanks for the semantic patch!


Have a lovely day!
Alex

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