}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(hex_to_bin);
+/**
+ * hex2bin - convert an ascii hexadecimal string to its binary representation
+ * @dst: binary result
+ * @src: ascii hexadecimal string
+ * @count: result length
+ */
+void hex2bin(u8 *dst, const char *src, size_t count)
+{
+ while (count--) {
+ *dst = hex_to_bin(*src++) << 4;
+ *dst += hex_to_bin(*src++);
+ dst++;
+ }
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(hex2bin);
+
/**
* hex_dump_to_buffer - convert a blob of data to "hex ASCII" in memory
* @buf: data blob to dump