sysfs_match_string(9)

💅 sysfs_match_string(9) — the kernel API manual, but make it make sense 💅

okay so bestie, this is the page for sysfs_match_string, from the Kernel API Manual — yes, that's the manual name, we're folding it in right here at the top like a little name tag 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

sysfs_match_string — matches given string in an array 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

sysfs_match_string (_a , _s );

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• _a — the array of strings 🌸 like, the whole lineup, that's _a
• _s — the string to match with 🎯 the one you're hunting for in the array

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so it's a helper for __sysfs_match_string 🫶 and here's the vibe: it calculates the size of _a automatically. no cap, you don't have to pass the length in yourself, it just figures it out 💅 iconic behaviour, honestly.

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

kernel file ./include/linux/string.h — and literally the whole friend group it hangs out with 🎀

• memdup_array_user(9)
• vmemdup_array_user(9)
• strscpy(9)
• strscpy_pad(9)
• mem_is_zero(9)
• memzero_explicit(9)
• kbasename(9)
• strtomem_pad(9)
• strtomem(9)
• memtostr(9)
• memtostr_pad(9)
• memset_after(9)
• memset_startat(9)
• str_has_prefix(9)
• strstarts(9)
• strends(9)

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🌈 sign-off 🌈

that's the whole page, bestie — source lives in ./include/linux, and this edition is dated October 2026. go read some string.h and slay 👑💖