From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752473Ab1H1Twp (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:52:45 -0400 Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]:49736 "HELO mailout-de.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752148Ab1H1Twg (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:52:36 -0400 X-Authenticated: #12255092 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19+ww1tyUd+A/0w7XZPotARDsRthDpe9VM1SvrYim Mo+JS/O44PCILD From: Peter =?iso-8859-15?q?H=FCwe?= To: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/mac80211/debugfs: Convert to kstrou8_from_user Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 21:52:31 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/3.0.3; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) Cc: "John W. Linville" , "David S. Miller" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org References: <1307478974-32727-1-git-send-email-peterhuewe@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <1307478974-32727-1-git-send-email-peterhuewe@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201108282152.32180.PeterHuewe@gmx.de> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Dienstag 07 Juni 2011, 22:36:14 schrieb Peter Huewe: > This patch replaces the code for getting an number from a > userspace buffer by a simple call to kstrou8_from_user. > This makes it easier to read and less error prone. > > Since the old buffer was only 10 bytes long and the value is masked by a > nibble-mask anyway, we don't need to use kstrtoul but rather kstrtou8. > > Kernel Version: v3.0-rc2 > > Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe Any updates on this one? Still applies to the latest linus' tree Thanks, Peter