On Thursday 24 January 2008 04:35:03 Len Brown wrote: > I'm surprised to discover it uses strstr() and matches > substrings instead. Is there logic behind that? As for the exact reason, no idea - you'd have to ask whoever is responsible for that. It's just a curious thing I've noticed and has come in rather handy. As a side effect though, it does avoid lots of nasty unpleasantness with vendor whitespace padding abuse. Otherwise, as Acer in particular love to pad many of their DMI entries with whitespace, we'd be scratching our heads forever as to why an entry doesn't work if we slip up and miss a whitespace character or two. So at least from my perspective, substring matching is a good thing. -Carlos -- E-Mail: carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web: strangeworlds.co.uk GPG Key ID: 0x23EE722D - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
