Re: [PATCH v2] acpi: Use kstrtoul() instead of strtoul()/simple_strtoul()

Guenter Roeck
2015-07-29T18:38:43Z

On 07/29/2015 10:51 AM, Moore, Robert wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Guenter Roeck [mailto:linux@roeck-us.net]
>> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2015 5:32 PM
>> To: rjw@rjwysocki.net
>> Cc: lenb@kernel.org; Moore, Robert; Zheng, Lv; linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org;
>> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; devel@acpica.org; Guenter Roeck
>> Subject: [PATCH v2] acpi: Use kstrtoul() instead of
>> strtoul()/simple_strtoul()
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>> simple_strtoul() is deprecated; replace with kstrtoul() and kstrtouint().
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> The ACPICA code is os-independent and cannot use these functions (at least not directly).
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Odd argument, given that kstrtoul() is used already in the acpi code.

Guenter