From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: "Peter Hüwe" <PeterHuewe@gmx.de>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
"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
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/mac80211/debugfs: Convert to kstrou8_from_user
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:50:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110830175054.GB2660@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201108282152.32180.PeterHuewe@gmx.de>
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 09:52:31PM +0200, Peter Hüwe wrote:
> 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
I merged it to wireless-next yesterday.
Thanks for the reminder!
John
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2011-06-07 20:36 [PATCH] net/mac80211/debugfs: Convert to kstrou8_from_user Peter Huewe
2011-08-28 19:52 ` Peter Hüwe
2011-08-30 17:50 ` John W. Linville [this message]
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