Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: core: No need to use strncmp()

31 Jul 2013


      On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:48:14AM +0100, Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:07:26AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 09:44:13AM +0100, Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
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Signed-off-by: Dimitris Papastamos dp@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
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Why?
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Hm, strncmp() suggests that we might not care about the entire string.
Although trivial, I thought strcmp() is clearer in this context.
One of the reasons we use strncmp() here is to avoid going beyond the
end of the fixed size buffer.