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Add a generic helper to match the string in a given buffer, and ignore
the leading and trailing whitespace.
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
[ rename variables, add comments ]
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>