On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 19:48 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Mimi Zohar <zo...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > +void hex2bin(unsigned char *mem, char *buf, int count)
> 
> I think this needs a little adjustment.  I would recommend something like the
> following declaration:
> 
>       void hex2bin(u8 *buf, const char *data, size_t count)
> 
> since the output data is binary (so use u8*), you're only reading the source
> data (so should use a const pointer) and you don't want to see a negative
> count (so use size_t).

right, thanks.

> Also, I'd suggest calling the source arg 'data' and the output arg 'buf' or
> maybe src/dst.
> 
> David

Definitely better. (Remnant from kgdb_hex2mem() naming.)

thanks,

Mimi


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