Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] lib/string: introduce ascii2utf16le() helper

[Alan Stern]

On Mon, 6 Feb 2017, Richard Leitner wrote:

> For USB string descriptors we need to convert ASCII strings to UTF16-LE.
> Therefore make a simple helper function (based on ascii2desc from
> drivers/usb/core/hcd.c) for that purpose.

You know, we already have utf8s_to_utf16s() in fs/nls/nls_base.c.  
Maybe it doesn't do exactly what you want, but it should be pretty 
close.  Adding another helper function to do essentially the same thing 
seems unnecessary.

Alan Stern