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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
	w.d.hubbs@gmail.com, chris@the-brannons.com, kirk@reisers.ca,
	speakup@linux-speakup.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: Note that simple_strtoul can't simply be replaced by kstrtoul
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 08:59:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190224075921.GA5937@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190223194219.qxvi7cwfp3etqdfi@function>

On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 08:42:19PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> We often receive patches which erroneously try to use kstrtoul in these
> places.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>

Awe, it's fun to try to see people do this and not really think about
the consequences :)

Anyway, seriously, thanks for this, I'll go queue it up later today...

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-24  8:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-23 19:42 [PATCH] staging: Note that simple_strtoul can't simply be replaced by kstrtoul Samuel Thibault
2019-02-24  7:59 ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-02-24 19:38   ` Samuel Thibault

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