On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 12:28:41PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 8 May 2015 21:30:29 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Enter parse_integer().
> >
> > int parse_integer(const char *s, unsigned int base, T *val);
>
> OK, I grabbed these.
Thanks! Just to note, first patch (accept "-0") is independent and
can be sent at any time.
> Let's see how it goes. Were these patches still up to date?
Yes, kstrto*(), scanf() didn't change since when this was sent.
> Presumably we'd benefit from a checkpatch rule to alert people to the
> new regime. Can you please suggest what such a rule should do?
It should say to switch from simple_strto*() to one of the 4 officially
sanctioned integer conversion routines: parse_integer(), kstrto*(),
kstrto*_from_user(), sscanf(). I'll send a patch.
> The macros in lib/test-parse-integer.c hurt my brain.
Well, yes, but the only interesting thing there are test tables.
Alexey
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