Merge tag 'v4.12-rc3' into for-linus

Merge with mainline to get acpi_dev_present() needed by patches to
axp20x-pek driver.

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index ed83562a53ae..1c1fc9187b05 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(strncpy);
  * @src: Where to copy the string from
  * @size: size of destination buffer
  *
- * Compatible with *BSD: the result is always a valid
+ * Compatible with ``*BSD``: the result is always a valid
  * NUL-terminated string that fits in the buffer (unless,
  * of course, the buffer size is zero). It does not pad
  * out the result like strncpy() does.
@@ -656,6 +656,32 @@ int match_string(const char * const *array, size_t n, const char *string)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(match_string);
 
+/**
+ * __sysfs_match_string - matches given string in an array
+ * @array: array of strings
+ * @n: number of strings in the array or -1 for NULL terminated arrays
+ * @str: string to match with
+ *
+ * Returns index of @str in the @array or -EINVAL, just like match_string().
+ * Uses sysfs_streq instead of strcmp for matching.
+ */
+int __sysfs_match_string(const char * const *array, size_t n, const char *str)
+{
+	const char *item;
+	int index;
+
+	for (index = 0; index < n; index++) {
+		item = array[index];
+		if (!item)
+			break;
+		if (sysfs_streq(item, str))
+			return index;
+	}
+
+	return -EINVAL;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__sysfs_match_string);
+
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_MEMSET
 /**
  * memset - Fill a region of memory with the given value