>> Am I the only software developer so far who would dare to reconsider >> implementation details from three status functions? >> > No. Thanks for this kind of promising feedback. > But we're waiting for you showing is that it is an improvement. Can this aspect also be clarified to some degree from a logical point of view? * Would you really like to know under which circumstances data processing will be faster for a single character instead of using a string pointer and corresponding two characters? * Do you care for a changed memory allocation characteristic? * Will it occasionally be useful to avoid the storage for another string literal? Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html