The patch titled
Subject: string: introduce helper to get base file name from given path
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
string-introduce-helper-to-get-base-file-name-from-given-path.patch
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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: string: introduce helper to get base file name from given path
There are several places in the kernel that use functionality like
basename(3) with the exception: in case of '/foo/bar/' we expect to get an
empty string. Let's do it common helper for them.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: YAMANE Toshiaki <yamanetoshi@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/string.h | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff -puN include/linux/string.h~string-introduce-helper-to-get-base-file-name-from-given-path include/linux/string.h
--- a/include/linux/string.h~string-introduce-helper-to-get-base-file-name-from-given-path
+++ a/include/linux/string.h
@@ -143,4 +143,15 @@ static inline bool strstarts(const char
extern size_t memweight(const void *ptr, size_t bytes);
+/**
+ * kbasename - return the last part of a pathname.
+ *
+ * @path: path to extract the filename from.
+ */
+static inline const char *kbasename(const char *path)
+{
+ const char *tail = strrchr(path, '/');
+ return tail ? tail + 1 : path;
+}
+
#endif /* _LINUX_STRING_H_ */
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
string-introduce-helper-to-get-base-file-name-from-given-path.patch
lib-dynamic_debug-use-kbasename.patch
staging-rts_pstor-use-kbasename.patch
mm-use-kbasename.patch
procfs-use-kbasename.patch
trace-use-kbasename.patch
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