Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754080Ab2JBPCz (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2012 11:02:55 -0400 Received: from mga14.intel.com ([143.182.124.37]:56482 "EHLO mga14.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751562Ab2JBPBW (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2012 11:01:22 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.80,523,1344236400"; d="scan'208";a="199635154" From: Andy Shevchenko To: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Joe Perches Cc: Andy Shevchenko , YAMANE Toshiaki Subject: [PATCH 1/7] string: introduce helper to get base file name from given path Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 18:00:54 +0300 Message-Id: <1349190062-13107-1-git-send-email-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.10.4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1181 Lines: 38 There are several places in kernel that use functionality like shell's basename function. Let's do it common helper for them. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Cc: YAMANE Toshiaki --- include/linux/string.h | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h index b917881..b09a342 100644 --- a/include/linux/string.h +++ b/include/linux/string.h @@ -147,5 +147,16 @@ static inline bool strstarts(const char *str, const char *prefix) extern size_t memweight(const void *ptr, size_t bytes); +/** + * kbasename - return the last part of a pathname. + * + * @path: path to extract the filename from. + */ +static inline const char *kbasename(const char *path) +{ + const char *tail = strrchr(path, '/'); + return tail ? tail + 1 : path; +} + #endif /* __KERNEL__ */ #endif /* _LINUX_STRING_H_ */ -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/