Merge branch 'topic/hda' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 into devel

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index e96421ab9a9a..9f75b4ec50b8 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -338,20 +338,34 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(strnchr);
 #endif
 
 /**
- * strstrip - Removes leading and trailing whitespace from @s.
+ * skip_spaces - Removes leading whitespace from @str.
+ * @str: The string to be stripped.
+ *
+ * Returns a pointer to the first non-whitespace character in @str.
+ */
+char *skip_spaces(const char *str)
+{
+	while (isspace(*str))
+		++str;
+	return (char *)str;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(skip_spaces);
+
+/**
+ * strim - Removes leading and trailing whitespace from @s.
  * @s: The string to be stripped.
  *
  * Note that the first trailing whitespace is replaced with a %NUL-terminator
  * in the given string @s. Returns a pointer to the first non-whitespace
  * character in @s.
  */
-char *strstrip(char *s)
+char *strim(char *s)
 {
 	size_t size;
 	char *end;
 
+	s = skip_spaces(s);
 	size = strlen(s);
-
 	if (!size)
 		return s;
 
@@ -360,12 +374,9 @@ char *strstrip(char *s)
 		end--;
 	*(end + 1) = '\0';
 
-	while (*s && isspace(*s))
-		s++;
-
 	return s;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(strstrip);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(strim);
 
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_STRLEN
 /**