From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 03:04:50 +0000 (+1100)
Subject: string: introduce helper to get base file name from given path
X-Git-Tag: next-20121112~5^2~94
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c798d294881a6fbf0009d414ff641b5d99a0fb50;p=karo-tx-linux.git

string: introduce helper to get base file name from given path

There are several places in the kernel that use functionality like
basename(3) with the exception: in case of '/foo/bar/' we expect to get an
empty string.  Let's do it common helper for them.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: YAMANE Toshiaki <yamanetoshi@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

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_ */