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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 08:47:06 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mihaela Muraru <mihaela.muraru21@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: speakup: Replace simple_strtoul with kstrtoul
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On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 09:18:51AM +0300, Mihaela Muraru wrote:
> This patch fixes up a checkpatch.pl warning :
> WARNING: simple_strtoul is obsolete, use kstrtoul instead.

Please look at the mailing list archives for why I'm pretty sure this
does not work.  Have you verified that the code still works the same as
before by looking at how the data is handled?

thanks,

greg k-h