Re: [PATCH] x86: wmi: Remove private %pUL implementation

Darren Hart
2015-09-10T03:34:11Z

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:08:45AM +0200, 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>
> ---
> Resending, hoping to get it picked up this time.

I appear to have dropped the ball on this, even after you sent me a reminder. My
sincere apologies.

I've re-reviewed, built myself, queued to testing, and it's now getting the
0-day treatment. Provided that comes back good - hopefully tonight, I'll push to
for-next, and you'll see it in next in the morning, and to Linus on Friday
before the close of the merge window for 4.3.

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center