The patch titled Subject: drivers/base/core.c: use strreplace() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is drivers-base-corec-use-strreplace.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/drivers-base-corec-use-strreplace.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/drivers-base-corec-use-strreplace.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: drivers/base/core.c: use strreplace() This eliminates a little .text and avoids repeating the strchr call when we meet a '!' (which will happen at least once). Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/base/core.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/base/core.c~drivers-base-corec-use-strreplace drivers/base/core.c --- a/drivers/base/core.c~drivers-base-corec-use-strreplace +++ a/drivers/base/core.c @@ -1303,12 +1303,11 @@ const char *device_get_devnode(struct de return dev_name(dev); /* replace '!' in the name with '/' */ - *tmp = kstrdup(dev_name(dev), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!*tmp) + s = kstrdup(dev_name(dev), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!s) return NULL; - while ((s = strchr(*tmp, '!'))) - s[0] = '/'; - return *tmp; + strreplace(s, '!', '/'); + return *tmp = s; } /** _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are linux-slabh-fix-three-off-by-one-typos-in-comment.patch mm-only-define-hashdist-variable-when-needed.patch __bitmap_parselist-fix-bug-in-empty-string-handling.patch lib-sort-add-64-bit-swap-function.patch lib-sort-add-64-bit-swap-function-v2.patch lib-sort-add-64-bit-swap-function-v2-fix.patch lib-string-introduce-strreplace.patch kernel-trace-trace_events_filterc-use-strreplace.patch blktrace-use-strreplace-in-do_blk_trace_setup.patch lib-kobjectc-use-strreplace.patch drivers-base-corec-use-strreplace.patch drivers-md-mdc-use-strreplace.patch fs-jbd2-journalc-use-strreplace.patch fs-ext4-superc-use-strreplace-in-ext4_fill_super.patch checkpatch-avoid-not_unified_diff-errors-on-cover-letterpatch-files.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html