lib: add lib/glob.c

This is a helper function from drivers/ata/libata_core.c, where it is
used to blacklist particular device models.  It's being moved to lib/ so
other drivers may use it for the same purpose.

This implementation in non-recursive, so is safe for the kernel stack.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparse warning]
Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/glob.h b/include/linux/glob.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..861d8347d08e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/glob.h
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#ifndef _LINUX_GLOB_H
+#define _LINUX_GLOB_H
+
+#include <linux/types.h>        /* For bool */
+#include <linux/compiler.h>     /* For __pure */
+
+bool __pure glob_match(char const *pat, char const *str);
+
+#endif  /* _LINUX_GLOB_H */