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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: MTD list <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] mtd-utils: improve simple_strtoX usage commentary
Date: Fri,  8 Apr 2011 18:07:28 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1302275249-11962-1-git-send-email-dedekind1@gmail.com> (raw)

From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
---
 include/common.h |   11 +++++++++++
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/common.h b/include/common.h
index 2e5c2a0..0e3526a 100644
--- a/include/common.h
+++ b/include/common.h
@@ -93,6 +93,17 @@ static inline int is_power_of_2(unsigned long long n)
  * simple_strtoX - convert a hex/dec/oct string into a number
  * @snum: buffer to convert
  * @error: set to 1 when buffer isn't fully consumed
+ *
+ * These functions are similar to the standard strtoX() functions, but they are
+ * a little bit easier to use if you want to convert full string of digits into
+ * the binary form. The typical usage:
+ *
+ * int error = 0;
+ * unsigned long num;
+ *
+ * num = simple_strtoul(str, &error);
+ * if (error || !is_valid_number(num))
+ * 	error_happened();
  */
 #define simple_strtoX(func, type) \
 static inline type simple_##func(const char *snum, int *error) \
-- 
1.7.2.3

             reply	other threads:[~2011-04-08 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-08 15:07 Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2011-04-08 15:07 ` [PATCH 2/2] mtd-utils: switch ubi and ubifs tools to use common strtoX funcs Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-08 16:20 ` [PATCH 1/2] mtd-utils: improve simple_strtoX usage commentary Mike Frysinger
2011-04-09 14:39   ` Artem Bityutskiy

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