Merge branch 'master' into for-next

Sync with Linus tree to have 157550ff ("mtd: add GPMI-NAND driver
in the config and Makefile") as I have patch depending on that one.

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
index ddaae98c53f9..7939f636c8ba 100644
--- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h
+++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ static const char __module_cat(name,__LINE__)[]				  \
 #define __MODULE_PARM_TYPE(name, _type)					  \
   __MODULE_INFO(parmtype, name##type, #name ":" _type)
 
+/* One for each parameter, describing how to use it.  Some files do
+   multiple of these per line, so can't just use MODULE_INFO. */
+#define MODULE_PARM_DESC(_parm, desc) \
+	__MODULE_INFO(parm, _parm, #_parm ":" desc)
+
 struct kernel_param;
 
 struct kernel_param_ops {
@@ -262,6 +267,26 @@ static inline void __kernel_param_unlock(void)
 			    .str = &__param_string_##name, 0, perm);	\
 	__MODULE_PARM_TYPE(name, "string")
 
+/**
+ * parameq - checks if two parameter names match
+ * @name1: parameter name 1
+ * @name2: parameter name 2
+ *
+ * Returns true if the two parameter names are equal.
+ * Dashes (-) are considered equal to underscores (_).
+ */
+extern bool parameq(const char *name1, const char *name2);
+
+/**
+ * parameqn - checks if two parameter names match
+ * @name1: parameter name 1
+ * @name2: parameter name 2
+ * @n: the length to compare
+ *
+ * Similar to parameq(), except it compares @n characters.
+ */
+extern bool parameqn(const char *name1, const char *name2, size_t n);
+
 /* Called on module insert or kernel boot */
 extern int parse_args(const char *name,
 		      char *args,