From b18888ab256f05626193be955a7a03f01d676f8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Shevchenko Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:01:18 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Cc: Jason Baron Cc: YAMANE Toshiaki Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/string.h | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) 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_ */ -- 2.30.2