Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 23.128.96.18 as permitted sender) client-ip=23.128.96.18;
Date:   Tue, 22 Dec 2020 12:12:24 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@analog.com>
Cc:     linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        jic23@kernel.org, lars@metafoo.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
        andy.shevchenko@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] lib/string.c: add
 __sysfs_match_string_with_gaps() helper
Message-ID: <X+HUmERYPLyM+oz5@kroah.com>
References: <20201222095210.61897-1-alexandru.ardelean@analog.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20201222095210.61897-1-alexandru.ardelean@analog.com>
Precedence: bulk

On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 11:52:09AM +0200, Alexandru Ardelean wrote:
> The original docstring of the __sysfs_match_string() and match_string()
> helper, implied that -1 could be used to search through NULL terminated
> arrays, and positive 'n' can be used to go through arrays that may have
> NULL elements in the middle of the array.
> 
> This isn't true. Regardless of the value of 'n', the first NULL element in
> the array.

I can not parse this last sentence, is it missing something?

thanks,

greg k-h