Re: [PATCH 12/12] net: use the common ascii hex helpers

[Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 17:08 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Yup.  After a bit of testing and tyre-kicking I'll probably slip
> > > lib-add-ascii-hex-helper-functions.patch into mainline so that we can
> > > trickle all the *-use-the-common-ascii-hex-helpers.patch patches out to the
> > > various maintainers.
> > > 
> > 
> > I suppose the hex_asc array and hex_to_int could also use
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL().
> 
> gack.  How could you do all those patches without discovering this?  Please
> go give your QA staff a wedgie.

Sorry about the fat-fingered send, as before:

allyesconfig :(

> yes, hex_to_u8() is more specific and better defined than hex_to_int().
> 
> Although anally it should perhaps be two_digit_hex_to_ulong,
> four_digit_hex_to_ulong, etc.
> 
> ho hum, I'll drop them all.

int hex_char_to_int(char ch)
{
	return -1 if not [a-fA-F0-9]
}

int hex_to_u8(const char *buf, u8 *val)
int hex_to_u16(const char *buf, u16 *val)
int hex_to_u32(const char *buf, u32 *val)
int hex_to_u64(const char *buf, u64 *val)

Which return the number of chars read and reads up to a maximum of
2,4,8,16 chars respectively and returns early if a non-hex char
is encountered.

Thoughts?

Harvey