On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 23:06:15 +0200, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 00:03:01 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan <adobri...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Convert away from deprecated simple_strto*() interfaces to > > parse_integer() and kstrto*(). > > The patch does a lot more than this! It also adds lots of handling of > previously-ignored errors.
Yes, please give more description. > And it thereby introduces possible back-compatibility issues. Someone > who is doing "echo 42foo > wherever" will now get an error, whereas > they previously got 42. Right, many strings don't care about spaces, i.e. it contains trailing spaces, so the patch seems doing way too strict. I think it's better to omit the word termination check in each place. > So hm. Probably a good patch and I'll stick it in -mm for testing, but > this should go upstream via tiwai, please. Well, but parse_integer() isn't upstreamed yet, so it has to be after mm tree, right? thanks, Takashi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/