Re: [PATCH 1/9] lib: string_helpers: provide kfree_strarray()

From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Fri Sep 25 2020 - 07:32:33 EST


On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 11:01 AM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 01:38:34PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > There's a common pattern of dynamically allocating an array of char
> > pointers and then also dynamically allocating each string in this
> > array. Provide a helper for freeing such a string array with one call.
>
> For consistency I would like to provide kalloc_strarray(), but it seems a bit
> ambiguous. So I'm fine with this going alone.
>

But how would it even work - you can allocate strings in so many ways?
Also: let's not introduce functions without users.

Bart

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