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lib/string: introduce match_string() helper 

Occasionally we have to search for an occurrence of a string in an array
of strings.  Make a simple helper for that purpose.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andy Shevchenko 2016-03-17 14:22:14 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 7475851f34
commit 56b060814e
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include/linux/string.h
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@ -130,6 +130,8 @@ extern void argv_free(char **argv);
extern bool sysfs_streq(const char *s1, const char *s2);
extern int strtobool(const char *s, bool *res);
int match_string(const char * const *array, size_t n, const char *string);
#ifdef CONFIG_BINARY_PRINTF
int vbin_printf(u32 *bin_buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args);
int bstr_printf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, const u32 *bin_buf);

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lib/string.c
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@ -630,6 +630,32 @@ bool sysfs_streq(const char *s1, const char *s2)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysfs_streq);
/**
* match_string - matches given string in an array
* @array: array of strings
* @n: number of strings in the array or -1 for NULL terminated arrays
* @string: string to match with
*
* Return:
* index of a @string in the @array if matches, or %-EINVAL otherwise.
*/
int match_string(const char * const *array, size_t n, const char *string)
{
int index;
const char *item;
for (index = 0; index < n; index++) {
item = array[index];
if (!item)
break;
if (!strcmp(item, string))
return index;
}
return -EINVAL;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(match_string);
/**
* strtobool - convert common user inputs into boolean values
* @s: input string