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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2013-01-29 14:59:09 -0800
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2013-01-29 15:10:15 -0800
commitde65d816aa44f9ddd79861ae21d75010cc1fd003 (patch)
tree04a637a43b2e52a733d0dcb7595a47057571e7da /include/linux/string.h
parent9710f581bb4c35589ac046b0cfc0deb7f369fc85 (diff)
parent5dcd14ecd41ea2b3ae3295a9b30d98769d52165f (diff)
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/x86/boot' into x86/mm2
Coming patches to x86/mm2 require the changes and advanced baseline in x86/boot. Resolved Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/setup.c mm/nobootmem.c Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h
index 630125818ca8..ac889c5ea11b 100644
--- a/include/linux/string.h
+++ b/include/linux/string.h
@@ -143,4 +143,15 @@ static inline bool strstarts(const char *str, const char *prefix)
extern size_t memweight(const void *ptr, size_t bytes);
+/**
+ * kbasename - return the last part of a pathname.
+ *
+ * @path: path to extract the filename from.
+ */
+static inline const char *kbasename(const char *path)
+{
+ const char *tail = strrchr(path, '/');
+ return tail ? tail + 1 : path;
+}
+
#endif /* _LINUX_STRING_H_ */