Re: [PATCH] linux/string.h: Introduce streq macro.

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Apr 27 2011 - 16:24:57 EST


On 04/27/2011 01:04 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> It's no different than having printk() instead of printf().

Which IMO was a mistake in Linux. It would be different if the priority
argument had been explicit (although these days it's functionally
required, which sort-of justifies a different name.)

kmalloc(), kstrdup() etc. have different names because they're different
interfaces, which don't duplicate the malloc(), strdup() etc. semantics.

-hpa
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