[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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