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From: Peter =?iso-8859-15?q?H=FCwe?= <PeterHuewe@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:52:31 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/mac80211/debugfs: Convert to kstrou8_from_user
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To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org

Am Dienstag 07 Juni 2011, 22:36:14 schrieb Peter Huewe:
> This patch replaces the code for getting an number from a
> userspace buffer by a simple call to kstrou8_from_user.
> This makes it easier to read and less error prone.
> 
> Since the old buffer was only 10 bytes long and the value is masked by a
> nibble-mask anyway, we don't need to use kstrtoul but rather kstrtou8.
> 
> Kernel Version: v3.0-rc2
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>

Any updates on this one?
Still applies to the latest linus' tree

Thanks,
Peter