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Message-ID: <20150604222857.GM7232@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 23:28:57 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 5/8] drivers/base/core.c: Use strreplace
On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 11:37:12AM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> This eliminates a local variable and a little .text.
Hmm...
> *tmp = kstrdup(dev_name(dev), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!*tmp)
> return NULL;
> - while ((s = strchr(*tmp, '!')))
> - s[0] = '/';
> + strreplace((char *)*tmp, '!', '/');
> return *tmp;
That cast isn't nice. Why not make it
s = kstrdup(...)
if (s)
strreplace(s, ...)
return *tmp = s;
instead?
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