Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] lib: string: add functions to case-convert strings

2016-07-13 Thread Markus Mayer
On 13 July 2016 at 15:53, Luis de Bethencourt wrote: > > Hi Markus, > > Thank you very much for the thorough testing and solution searching. > > Earlier today I sent a patch that removes dynamic_debug.h from > include/linux/kernel.h, since it isn't really needed. Sorry about this > since it change

Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] lib: string: add functions to case-convert strings

2016-07-13 Thread Luis de Bethencourt
On 13/07/16 23:26, Markus Mayer wrote: > On 13 July 2016 at 10:19, Luis de Bethencourt wrote: >> On 11/07/16 23:46, Markus Mayer wrote: >> >> Hi Markus, >> >> Amazing. I see this happening as well, but I know it shouldn't. >> >> The reason the #ifndef guards in headers are there is precisely to al

Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] lib: string: add functions to case-convert strings

2016-07-13 Thread Markus Mayer
On 13 July 2016 at 10:19, Luis de Bethencourt wrote: > On 11/07/16 23:46, Markus Mayer wrote: > > Hi Markus, > > Amazing. I see this happening as well, but I know it shouldn't. > > The reason the #ifndef guards in headers are there is precisely to allow > circular dependencies. > > The problem in

Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] lib: string: add functions to case-convert strings

2016-07-13 Thread Luis de Bethencourt
On 11/07/16 23:46, Markus Mayer wrote: > On 9 July 2016 at 08:30, Markus Mayer wrote: >> On 9 July 2016 at 05:04, Luis de Bethencourt wrote: >>> On 08/07/16 23:43, Markus Mayer wrote: Add a collection of generic functions to convert strings to lowercase or uppercase. Changing

Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] lib: string: add functions to case-convert strings

2016-07-11 Thread Markus Mayer
On 9 July 2016 at 08:30, Markus Mayer wrote: > On 9 July 2016 at 05:04, Luis de Bethencourt wrote: >> On 08/07/16 23:43, Markus Mayer wrote: >>> Add a collection of generic functions to convert strings to lowercase >>> or uppercase. >>> >>> Changing the case of a string (with or without copying i

Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] lib: string: add functions to case-convert strings

2016-07-09 Thread Markus Mayer
On 9 July 2016 at 05:04, Luis de Bethencourt wrote: > On 08/07/16 23:43, Markus Mayer wrote: >> Add a collection of generic functions to convert strings to lowercase >> or uppercase. >> >> Changing the case of a string (with or without copying it first) seems >> to be a recurring requirement in th

Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] lib: string: add functions to case-convert strings

2016-07-09 Thread Luis de Bethencourt
On 08/07/16 23:43, Markus Mayer wrote: > Add a collection of generic functions to convert strings to lowercase > or uppercase. > > Changing the case of a string (with or without copying it first) seems > to be a recurring requirement in the kernel that is currently being > solved by several duplic

[PATCH v3 1/7] lib: string: add functions to case-convert strings

2016-07-08 Thread Markus Mayer
Add a collection of generic functions to convert strings to lowercase or uppercase. Changing the case of a string (with or without copying it first) seems to be a recurring requirement in the kernel that is currently being solved by several duplicated implementations doing the same thing. This cha