Re: [PATCH 12/21] Use prefixcmp() instead of memcmp() for cleaner code with less magic numbers

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 9, 2007, 21:42 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0706091442m6594260btd3b898bfb63e1fbb@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200706090217.49818.johan@herland.net>

On 6/9/07, Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> wrote:

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> +/*
> + * Perform parsing and verification of tag object data.
> + *
> + * The 'item' parameter may be set to NULL if only verification is desired.
> + *
> + * The given data _must_ be null-terminated.
> + */
>  int parse_and_verify_tag_buffer(struct tag *item,
>                 const char *data, const unsigned long size, int thorough_verify)

This hunk really belongs into commit which introduced the function parse_and_verify_tag_buffer.

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