linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 01/10] string: provide strends()

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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:36:33 +0200
From: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>
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	Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/10] string: provide strends()

On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@...el.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 03:10:40PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
> >
> > Implement a function for checking if a string ends with a different
> > string and add its kunit test cases.
>
> ...
>
> > +static void string_test_strends(struct kunit *test)
> > +{
> > +     KUNIT_EXPECT_TRUE(test, strends("foo-bar", "bar"));
> > +     KUNIT_EXPECT_TRUE(test, strends("foo-bar", "-bar"));
> > +     KUNIT_EXPECT_TRUE(test, strends("foobar", "foobar"));
> > +     KUNIT_EXPECT_TRUE(test, strends("foobar", ""));
> > +     KUNIT_EXPECT_FALSE(test, strends("bar", "foobar"));
> > +     KUNIT_EXPECT_FALSE(test, strends("", "foo"));
> > +     KUNIT_EXPECT_FALSE(test, strends("foobar", "ba"));
> > +     KUNIT_EXPECT_TRUE(test, strends("", ""));
> > +}
>
> Have you checked the binary file? If you want this to be properly implemented,
> generate the suffix. (Actually making the function static inline makes my point
> really visible)
>

Andy, this is bikeshedding. This is literally the least important
piece of this series. It doesn't matter for the big picture whether
this is inlined or not.

Bartosz