On 01/07/10 11:36 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 11:30 -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
Replace rudimentry pattern matching with more capable shell-style globbing.
This will enable shrinking ata_device_blacklist[] table in subsequent patches,
and helps with future editions to the table, such as matching only the end
of a firmware revision string etc..
So we have other identical cases of this list to flag matching ... like
in SCSI. How about we move the mechanics to lib and share the code?
I agree wholeheartedly. But first it has to get upstream.
And it has follow-on patches that depend on it,
so initially I'd like to push it up via the libata tree.
And then.. as in the original post:
Eventually, this function should move out of libata into lib/string.c or similar (?).
But since following patches in this series require it for libata,
let's start with it there, and move things later on.
Cheers!
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