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Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] lib/string: introduce ascii2utf16le() helper

From Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] lib/string: introduce ascii2utf16le() helper
Date 2017-02-06 16:20 +0100
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On Mon, 6 Feb 2017, Richard Leitner wrote:

> For USB string descriptors we need to convert ASCII strings to UTF16-LE.
> Therefore make a simple helper function (based on ascii2desc from
> drivers/usb/core/hcd.c) for that purpose.

You know, we already have utf8s_to_utf16s() in fs/nls/nls_base.c.  
Maybe it doesn't do exactly what you want, but it should be pretty 
close.  Adding another helper function to do essentially the same thing 
seems unnecessary.

Alan Stern

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[PATCH v3 1/3] lib/string: introduce ascii2utf16le() helper Richard Leitner <richard.leitner@skidata.com> - 2017-02-06 15:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] lib/string: introduce ascii2utf16le() helper Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-02-06 16:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] lib/string: introduce ascii2utf16le() helper Richard Leitner <richard.leitner@skidata.com> - 2017-02-06 16:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] lib/string: introduce ascii2utf16le() helper Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-02-06 16:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] lib/string: introduce ascii2utf16le() helper Richard Leitner <richard.leitner@skidata.com> - 2017-02-06 16:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] lib/string: introduce ascii2utf16le() helper Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> - 2017-02-06 17:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] lib/string: introduce ascii2utf16le() helper Richard Leitner <richard.leitner@skidata.com> - 2017-02-08 10:00 +0100

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