Re: [PATCH 1/2] lib/string_helpers: Introduce strsplit_u32()

[Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@intel.com>]

On 2022-07-08 12:22 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 11:03 AM Cezary Rojewski
> <cezary.rojewski@intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> Add strsplit_u32() and its __user variant to allow for splitting
>> specified string into array of u32 tokens.
> 
> And I believe we have more of this done in old code.
> Since all callers use ',' as a delimiter, have you considered using
> get_options()?


Thanks for your input, Andy.

When I'd written the very first version of this function many months 
ago, get_options() looked as it does not fulfill our needs. It seems to 
be true even today: caller needs to know the number of elements in an 
array upfront. Also, kstrtox() takes into account '0x' and modifies the 
base accordingly if that's the case. simple_strtoull() looks as not 
capable of doing the same thing.

The goal is to be able to parse input such as:

0x1000003,0,0,0x1000004,0,0

into a sequence of 6 uints, filling the *tkns and *num_tkns for the caller.

>> Originally this functionality was added for the SOF sound driver. As
>> more users are on the horizon, relocate it so it becomes a common good.
> 
> Maybe it can be fixed just there.

avs-driver, which is also part of the ASoC framework has very similar 
debug-interface. I believe there's no need to duplicate the functions - 
move them to common code instead.


Regards,
Czarek