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>