From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>,
linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/6] lib/cmdline: Update documentation to reflect behaviour
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 14:38:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210122123853.75162-2-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210122123853.75162-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
get_options() API has some tricks to optimize that may be not so obvious
to the caller. Update documentation to reflect current behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
---
v3: added Rb tag (Bart)
lib/cmdline.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/cmdline.c b/lib/cmdline.c
index b390dd03363b..2a9ae2143e42 100644
--- a/lib/cmdline.c
+++ b/lib/cmdline.c
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_option);
* get_options - Parse a string into a list of integers
* @str: String to be parsed
* @nints: size of integer array
- * @ints: integer array
+ * @ints: integer array (must have a room for at least one element)
*
* This function parses a string containing a comma-separated
* list of integers, a hyphen-separated range of _positive_ integers,
@@ -91,6 +91,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_option);
* full, or when no more numbers can be retrieved from the
* string.
*
+ * Returns:
+ *
+ * The first element is filled by the amount of the collected numbers
+ * in the range. The rest is what was parsed from the @str.
+ *
* Return value is the character in the string which caused
* the parse to end (typically a null terminator, if @str is
* completely parseable).
--
2.29.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-22 12:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-22 12:38 [PATCH v3 1/6] lib/cmdline_kunit: add a new test case for get_options() Andy Shevchenko
2021-01-22 12:38 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2021-01-22 13:10 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] lib/cmdline: Update documentation to reflect behaviour Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-01-22 13:47 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-01-22 12:38 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] lib/cmdline: Allow get_options() to take 0 to validate the input Andy Shevchenko
2021-01-22 13:13 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-01-22 13:49 ` Andy Shevchenko
2021-01-22 12:38 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] gpio: aggregator: Replace isrange() by using get_options() Andy Shevchenko
2021-01-22 13:14 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-01-22 12:38 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] gpio: aggregator: Use compound literal from the header Andy Shevchenko
2021-01-22 13:22 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-01-22 12:38 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] gpio: aggregator: Remove trailing comma in terminator entries Andy Shevchenko
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