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From:   Alexandru Ardelean <ardeleanalex@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 22 Dec 2020 15:00:02 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] lib/string.c: add __sysfs_match_string_with_gaps() helper
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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        linux-iio <linux-iio@vger.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>,
        Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>,
        akpm@linux-foundation.org,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 1:13 PM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> 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?

oh, my bad;
will fix this and send a new version

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h