linux-kernel - Re: [for-next][PATCH 23/24] string.h: Add strncmp

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Date:   Sun, 23 Dec 2018 15:01:49 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [for-next][PATCH 23/24] string.h: Add strncmp_prefix() helper
 macro

On Sun, 2018-12-23 at 23:01 +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> On 21/12/2018 23.20, Joe Perches wrote:
[]
> > static inline bool str_has_prefix(const char *str, const char prefix[])
[]
> We already have exactly that function, it's called strstarts().

Heh.  Thanks Rasmus.  I didn't remember that one.

I think the 'int str_has_prefix' naming and returning the prefix
length may be a bit better use than 'bool strstarts' and perhaps a
treewide conversion of the existing strstarts to str_has_prefix
would be OK as there aren't that many.

$ git grep -w strstarts | wc -l
91