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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] lib: introduce simple error-checking wrapper for
 memparse()
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On Thu,  8 Jan 2026 19:52:15 +0300 Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru> wrote:

> Introduce 'memvalue()' which uses 'memparse()' to parse a string
> with optional memory suffix into a non-negative number. If parsing
> has succeeded, returns 0 and stores the result at the location
> specified by the second argument. Otherwise returns -EINVAL and
> leaves the location untouched.

Where do we stand with this patchset now?  I saw a lot of discussion but
not a lot of clarity.  Thanks.

Unrelated:

> --- a/include/linux/string.h
> +++ b/include/linux/string.h
> @@ -319,6 +319,7 @@ DEFINE_FREE(argv_free, char **, if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(_T)) argv_free(_T))
>  extern int get_option(char **str, int *pint);
>  extern char *get_options(const char *str, int nints, int *ints);
>  extern unsigned long long memparse(const char *ptr, char **retptr);
> +extern int __must_check memvalue(const char *ptr, unsigned long long *valptr);

Sensible.

>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(memparse);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(memvalue);

memparse is used in many places.  Seems inappropriate that these things
are implemented in lib/cmdline.c?