>> Does anything actually rely on this behavior? > > Things did in the past rely on the case-insensitive comparison but > probably don't any more. I recall an issue with "ata" vs. "ATA" on > the powerbook 3400.
Yes, and there are some AAPL, vs. aapl, things too; and an i2c thing as well. Probably more. Nothing unfixable of course, but... > As for the "n" part, I don't recall exactly why that was done. I > think we should change it to use strcmp and fix any drivers that > break. ...we first need to find the problem spots. If we switch early in the .23 series, will that be enough time to find all (important) issues? Segher _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
