Re: [PATCH] x86: kernel/early_printk.c simple_strtoul cleanup

[Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 13:51 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 10:48 -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> > Change early_serial_init() to call kstrtoul() instead of calling obsoleted
> > simple_strtoul().
> []
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c b/arch/x86/kernel/early_printk.c
> []
> > @@ -119,22 +119,27 @@ static __init void early_serial_init(char *s)
> >  	unsigned char c;
> >  	unsigned divisor;
> >  	unsigned baud = DEFAULT_BAUD;
> > -	char *e;
> > +	unsigned long val;
> > +	ssize_t ret;
> >  
> >  	if (*s == ',')
> >  		++s;
> >  
> >  	if (*s) {
> > -		unsigned port;
> > +		unsigned port = 0;
> >  		if (!strncmp(s, "0x", 2)) {
> > -			early_serial_base = simple_strtoul(s, &e, 16);
> > +			ret = kstrtoul(s, 16, &val);
> > +			if (!ret)
> > +				early_serial_base = val;
> 
> I believe none of the kstrto<foo> calls set
> the value in the pointer unless successful so
> you don't need a temporary and can simply use:
> 
> 		ret = kstrtoint(s, 16, &early_serial_base)
> 		if (ret)
> 
> etc...

Will re-work the patch and resend it.

Thanks,
-- Shuah