Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] initramfs: get rid of custom hex2bin()

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 12:20:41PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > Here is the refactoring to show that. This is assumed to go via PRINTK
> > tree.
> 
> No, initramfs is maintained by the VFS and we already carry other patches.

If this applies cleanly, take them through it, I will be glad, thanks!

> If you want the kstrtox changes to go another route then I will take the
> first two changes in a stable branch that can be merged.

I am fine with this route as long as the custom approach is gone.

> > I have tested this on x86, but I believe the same result will be
> > on big-endian CPUs (I deduced that from how strtox() works).
> 
> Did you rerun the kunit tests the original change was part of or did you
> do some custom testing?

I'm not sure I understand the point. There were no test cases added for
simple_strntoul() AFAICS. Did I miss anything?

(If I didn't that is the second point on why the patches didn't get enough
 time for review and not every stakeholder seen them, usually we require
 the test cases for new APIs.)

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko