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From: Marcin Ciupak <marcin.s.ciupak@gmail.com>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>,
	Chris Brannon <chris@the-brannons.com>,
	Kirk Reiser <kirk@reisers.ca>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	speakup@linux-speakup.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: speakup: replace simple_strtoul with kstrtou8
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 09:38:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170303083833.GA12461@gentoo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170302151712.o7tza5lt3uuoe7av@var.youpi.perso.aquilenet.fr>

On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 04:17:12PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Marcin Ciupak, on jeu. 02 mars 2017 15:28:23 +0100, wrote:
> > -	int val;
> > +	int ret;
> >  
> > -	val = simple_strtoul(skip_spaces(start), &start, 10);
> > +	ret = kstrtou8(skip_spaces(start), 10, dest);
> 
> This is not the same, you need to have start properly move, since it's
> used below:
> 
> >  	if (*start == ',')
> >  		start++;
> > -	*dest = (u_char)val;
> >  	return start;
> 
> Samuel

You are right, start is not updated by kstrtou8 like it is by
simple_strtoul.

If I understand it correctly simple_strtoul cannot be replaced by
kstrtou8 here.

Please discard this patch.

Marcin

      reply	other threads:[~2017-03-03  8:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-02 14:28 [PATCH] staging: speakup: replace simple_strtoul with kstrtou8 Marcin Ciupak
2017-03-02 15:17 ` Samuel Thibault
2017-03-03  8:38   ` Marcin Ciupak [this message]

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