user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/string.h, branch v2.6.31.2

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-module-and-param

2009-04-05T17:30:21Z

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-module-and-param: module: use strstarts() strstarts: helper function for !strncmp(str, prefix, strlen(prefix)) arm: allow usage of string functions in linux/string.h module: don't use stop_machine on module load module: create a request_module_nowait() module: include other structures in module version check module: remove the SHF_ALLOC flag on the __versions section. module: clarify the force-loading taint message. module: Export symbols needed for Ksplice Ksplice: Add functions for walking kallsyms symbols module: remove module_text_address() module: __module_address module: Make find_symbol return a struct kernel_symbol kernel/module.c: fix an unused goto label param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs Fix trivial conflicts in kernel/extable.c manually.

Merge branch 'printk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2009-04-05T17:23:25Z

* 'printk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: printk: correct the behavior of printk_timed_ratelimit() vsprintf: unify the format decoding layer for its 3 users, cleanup fix regression from "vsprintf: unify the format decoding layer for its 3 users" vsprintf: fix bug in negative value printing vsprintf: unify the format decoding layer for its 3 users vsprintf: add binary printf printk: introduce printk_once() Fix trivial conflicts (printk_once vs log_buf_kexec_setup() added near each other) in include/linux/kernel.h.

memdup_user(): introduce

2009-04-01T15:59:13Z

I notice there are many places doing copy_from_user() which follows kmalloc(): dst = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL); if (!dst) return -ENOMEM; if (copy_from_user(dst, src, len)) { kfree(dst); return -EFAULT } memdup_user() is a wrapper of the above code. With this new function, we don't have to write 'len' twice, which can lead to typos/mistakes. It also produces smaller code and kernel text. A quick grep shows 250+ places where memdup_user() *may* be used. I'll prepare a patchset to do this conversion. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Americo Wang Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

strstarts: helper function for !strncmp(str, prefix, strlen(prefix))

2009-03-31T02:35:36Z

Impact: minor new API ksplice added a "starts_with" function, which seems like a common need. When people open-code it they seem to use fixed numbers rather than strlen, so it's quite a readability win (also, strncmp() almost always wants != 0 on it). So here's strstarts(). Cc: Anders Kaseorg Cc: Jeff Arnold Cc: Tim Abbott Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

vsprintf: add binary printf

2009-03-06T16:39:04Z

Impact: add new APIs for binary trace printk infrastructure vbin_printf(): write args to binary buffer, string is copied when "%s" is occurred. bstr_printf(): read from binary buffer for args and format a string [fweisbec@gmail.com: rebase] Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Linus Torvalds LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

linux/string.h: fix comment typo

2008-11-02T18:15:07Z

s/user/used/ Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

move memory_read_from_buffer() from fs.h to string.h

2008-07-24T17:47:13Z

James Bottomley warns that inclusion of linux/fs.h in a low level driver was always a danger signal. This patch moves memory_read_from_buffer() from fs.h to string.h and fixes includes in existing memory_read_from_buffer() users. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita Cc: James Bottomley Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Zhang Rui Cc: Bob Moore Cc: Thomas Renninger Cc: Len Brown Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Add a new sysfs_streq() string comparison function

2008-05-01T15:03:59Z

Add a new sysfs_streq() string comparison function, which ignores the trailing newlines found in sysfs inputs. By example: sysfs_streq("a", "b") ==> false sysfs_streq("a", "a") ==> true sysfs_streq("a", "a\n") ==> true sysfs_streq("a\n", "a") ==> true This is intended to simplify parsing of sysfs inputs, letting them avoid the need to manually strip off newlines from inputs. Signed-off-by: David Brownell Acked-by: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[TIPC]: Fix headercheck wrt. tipc_config.h

2007-10-31T04:44:00Z

It wants string functions like memcpy() for inline routines, and these define userland interfaces. The only clean way to deal with this is to simply put linux/string.h into unifdef-y and have it include when not-__KERNEL__. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

add argv_split()

2007-07-18T15:47:40Z

argv_split() is a helper function which takes a string, splits it at whitespace, and returns a NULL-terminated argv vector. This is deliberately simple - it does no quote processing of any kind. [ Seems to me that this is something which is already being done in the kernel, but I couldn't find any other implementations, either to steal or replace. Keep an eye out. ] Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Randy Dunlap