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From: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
To: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: wmi: Remove private %pUL implementation
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 09:52:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150306175232.GC19001@vmdeb7> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1424787330-26770-1-git-send-email-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 03:15:30PM +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> The work performed by wmi_gtoa is equivalent to simply sprintf(out,
> "%pUL", in), so one could replace its body by this. However, most
> users feed the result directly as a %s argument to some other function
> which also understands the %p extensions (they all ultimately use
> vsnprintf), so we can eliminate some stack buffers and quite a bit of
> code by just using %pUL directly.
> 
> In wmi_dev_uevent I'm not sure whether there's room for a
> nul-terminator in env->buf, so I've just replaced wmi_gtoa with the
> equivalent sprintf call.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>

Nice cleanup, thanks Rasmus. Queued for 4.1.

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-06 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-24 14:15 [PATCH] x86: wmi: Remove private %pUL implementation Rasmus Villemoes
2015-03-06 17:52 ` Darren Hart [this message]
2015-05-12 12:06   ` Rasmus Villemoes
2015-09-09 22:08     ` Rasmus Villemoes
2015-09-10  3:34       ` Darren Hart

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