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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
 /**