Hi, On 3/26/22 03:02, Wei Li wrote: > Since there is already a generic function strstarts() that check if a > string starts with a given prefix, cleanup str_starts_with(). > > Signed-off-by: Wei Li <liwei391@xxxxxxxxxx> Thank you for your patch, I've applied this patch to my review-hans branch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86.git/log/?h=review-hans Note it will show up in my review-hans branch once I've pushed my local branch there, which might take a while. Once I've run some tests on this branch the patches there will be added to the platform-drivers-x86/for-next branch and eventually will be included in the pdx86 pull-request to Linus for the next merge-window. Regards, Hans > --- > drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.c | 21 +++------------------ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.c b/drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.c > index 6b8b3ab8db48..3c589437b41e 100644 > --- a/drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.c > +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/acerhdf.c > @@ -584,21 +584,6 @@ static struct platform_driver acerhdf_driver = { > .remove = acerhdf_remove, > }; > > -/* checks if str begins with start */ > -static int str_starts_with(const char *str, const char *start) > -{ > - unsigned long str_len = 0, start_len = 0; > - > - str_len = strlen(str); > - start_len = strlen(start); > - > - if (str_len >= start_len && > - !strncmp(str, start, start_len)) > - return 1; > - > - return 0; > -} > - > /* check hardware */ > static int __init acerhdf_check_hardware(void) > { > @@ -651,9 +636,9 @@ static int __init acerhdf_check_hardware(void) > * check if actual hardware BIOS vendor, product and version > * IDs start with the strings of BIOS table entry > */ > - if (str_starts_with(vendor, bt->vendor) && > - str_starts_with(product, bt->product) && > - str_starts_with(version, bt->version)) { > + if (strstarts(vendor, bt->vendor) && > + strstarts(product, bt->product) && > + strstarts(version, bt->version)) { > found = 1; > break; > }