Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Introduce strreplace

On Tue, Jun 09 2015, Theodore Ts'o [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 01:26:48AM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:

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Doing single-character substitution on an entire string is open-coded
in a few places, sometimes in a rather suboptimal way. This introduces
a trivial helper, strreplace, for this task along with a few example
conversions.

Andrew, can I get you to take 1/8 through the mm tree? I'm not sure
what the easiest path is for the remaining patches.

This is not super urgent, right?

Right, not urgent at all.

So we could let 1/8 go into mainline, and then the rest of the patches
could go in the next release. That would be the simplest, although it
would drag out how long it would take for strreplace to be used
everywhere.

Sure, though it would be a little weird to have a helper with no users
until 4.3 comes out.

Rasmus