linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: fsl-mc: be consistent when checking strcmp() returns

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Date:   Tue, 22 Aug 2017 22:38:47 -0700
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     laurentiu.tudor@....com, stuyoder@...il.com,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        agraf@...e.de, ioana.ciornei@....com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: fsl-mc: be consistent when checking strcmp()
 returns

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 07:33:45PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-08-22 at 18:40 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 02:55:04PM +0300, laurentiu.tudor@....com wrote:
> > > From: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@....com>
> > > 
> > > Throughout the driver we use == 0 / != 0 to check strcmp() returns except
> > > this place, so fix it.
> > 
> > You will just get someone else fixing it as it is not what checkpatch
> > recommends, so just leave it as-is please.
> 
> No.  That's not correct.
> 
> checkpatch does not make a recommendation about
> style use with the strcmp family of functions.

Ah, ok, nevermind then...

Laurentiu, can you resend this?

thanks,

greg k-h