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diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index 0323c0d5629a..ed83562a53ae 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -631,33 +631,30 @@ bool sysfs_streq(const char *s1, const char *s2)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysfs_streq);
/**
- * strtobool - convert common user inputs into boolean values
- * @s: input string
- * @res: result
+ * match_string - matches given string in an array
+ * @array: array of strings
+ * @n: number of strings in the array or -1 for NULL terminated arrays
+ * @string: string to match with
*
- * This routine returns 0 iff the first character is one of 'Yy1Nn0'.
- * Otherwise it will return -EINVAL. Value pointed to by res is
- * updated upon finding a match.
- */
-int strtobool(const char *s, bool *res)
-{
- switch (s[0]) {
- case 'y':
- case 'Y':
- case '1':
- *res = true;
- break;
- case 'n':
- case 'N':
- case '0':
- *res = false;
- break;
- default:
- return -EINVAL;
+ * Return:
+ * index of a @string in the @array if matches, or %-EINVAL otherwise.
+ */
+int match_string(const char * const *array, size_t n, const char *string)
+{
+ int index;
+ const char *item;
+
+ for (index = 0; index < n; index++) {
+ item = array[index];
+ if (!item)
+ break;
+ if (!strcmp(item, string))
+ return index;
}
- return 0;
+
+ return -EINVAL;
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(strtobool);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(match_string);
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_MEMSET
/**