From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John W. Linville" Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:50:55 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/mac80211/debugfs: Convert to kstrou8_from_user Message-Id: <20110830175054.GB2660@tuxdriver.com> List-Id: References: <1307478974-32727-1-git-send-email-peterhuewe@gmx.de> <201108282152.32180.PeterHuewe@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <201108282152.32180.PeterHuewe@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: Peter =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=FCwe?= Cc: Johannes Berg , "David S. Miller" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 09:52:31PM +0200, Peter H=FCwe 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. > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > Kernel Version: v3.0-rc2 > >=20 > > Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe >=20 > Any updates on this one? > Still applies to the latest linus' tree I merged it to wireless-next yesterday. Thanks for the reminder! John --=20 John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html