lib: introduce upper case hex ascii helpers
To be able to use the hex ascii functions in case sensitive environments
the array hex_asc_upper[] and the needed functions for hex_byte_pack_upper()
are introduced.
Signed-off-by: Andre Naujoks <nautsch2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 482ad2d..672ddc4 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -439,6 +439,17 @@
return buf;
}
+extern const char hex_asc_upper[];
+#define hex_asc_upper_lo(x) hex_asc_upper[((x) & 0x0f)]
+#define hex_asc_upper_hi(x) hex_asc_upper[((x) & 0xf0) >> 4]
+
+static inline char *hex_byte_pack_upper(char *buf, u8 byte)
+{
+ *buf++ = hex_asc_upper_hi(byte);
+ *buf++ = hex_asc_upper_lo(byte);
+ return buf;
+}
+
static inline char * __deprecated pack_hex_byte(char *buf, u8 byte)
{
return hex_byte_pack(buf, byte);