From: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
To: Emil Goode <emilgoode@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] video: bfin_adv7393fb: Convert to kstrtouint_from_user
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 12:41:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FD3448B.2050806@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1338310620-6886-1-git-send-email-emilgoode@gmail.com>
On 05/29/2012 04:57 PM, Emil Goode wrote:
> This patch removes a call to the deprecated simple_strtoul function
> and simplifies the code by replacing two function calls with one
> call to kstrtouint_from_user.
>
> -Simplify the adv7393_write_proc function by replacing the
> simple_strtoul and copy_from_user calls with one call
> to kstrtouint_from_user.
>
> -Change the count parameter from unsigned long to size_t as
> this is the type that the kstrtouint_from_user function expects.
> (size_t is what will be passed to the adv7393_write_proc function
> by the proc write handler function proc_file_write anyway)
>
> Signed-off-by: Emil Goode <emilgoode@gmail.com>
Applied.
Thanks,
Florian Tobias Schandinat
> ---
> drivers/video/bfin_adv7393fb.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/bfin_adv7393fb.c b/drivers/video/bfin_adv7393fb.c
> index 1a268a2..8c6edfd 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/bfin_adv7393fb.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/bfin_adv7393fb.c
> @@ -353,18 +353,16 @@ adv7393_read_proc(char *page, char **start, off_t off,
>
> static int
> adv7393_write_proc(struct file *file, const char __user * buffer,
> - unsigned long count, void *data)
> + size_t count, void *data)
> {
> struct adv7393fb_device *fbdev = data;
> - char line[8];
> unsigned int val;
> int ret;
>
> - ret = copy_from_user(line, buffer, count);
> + ret = kstrtouint_from_user(buffer, count, 0, &val);
> if (ret)
> return -EFAULT;
>
> - val = simple_strtoul(line, NULL, 0);
> adv7393_write(fbdev->client, val >> 8, val & 0xff);
>
> return count;
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2012-05-29 16:57 [PATCH] video: bfin_adv7393fb: Convert to kstrtouint_from_user Emil Goode
2012-06-09 12:41 ` Florian Tobias Schandinat [this message]
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