[PATCH 3/6] Consolidate of_find_property
    Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
    benh at kernel.crashing.org
       
    Wed Apr 25 15:07:10 EST 2007
    
    
  
> The question is, what ppc drivers would break if we used strcmp
> instead of strcasecmp?  I have a dim memory that some Apple machines
> had "ata" and others had "ATA" for the hard disk, for instance.
ata/ATA and ide/IDE is the main one that comes to mind, but I wouldn't
exclude something like Powermac vs. PowerMac or that sort of thing... I
remember a case related bug about 2 years ago but can't find what it
was ...
I think it's safe to settle on strcasecmp for most things for now
Ben.
    
    
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