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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@gmx.com>
Cc: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>,
	linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr,
	David.Laight@aculab.com, ddiss@suse.de, geert@linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] kstrtox: introduce memparse_safe()
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2024 15:42:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZaPkz7gU42Eahf4L@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7708fc8b-738c-4d58-b89e-801ce6a4832a@gmx.com>

On Sun, Jan 07, 2024 at 07:28:27AM +1030, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> On 2024/1/7 01:04, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 09:57:47AM +1030, Qu Wenruo wrote:

...

> > Having test cases is quite good, thanks!
> > But as I understood what Alexey wanted, is not using the kstrtox files for this.
> > You can introduce it in the cmdline.c, correct? Just include local "kstrtox.h".
> 
> Not really possible, all the needed parsing helpers are internal inside
> kstrtox.c.

I'm not sure I follow. The functions are available to other library (built-in)
modules.

> Furthermore, this also means memparse() can not be enhanced due to:
> 
> - Lack of ways to return errors

What does this mean?

> - Unable to call the parsing helpers inside cmdline.c

??? (see above)

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-14 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-03 23:27 [PATCH v3 0/4] kstrtox: introduce memparse_safe() Qu Wenruo
2024-01-03 23:27 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] kstrtox: always skip the leading "0x" even if no more valid chars Qu Wenruo
2024-01-03 23:27 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] kstrtox: introduce a safer version of memparse() Qu Wenruo
2024-01-04  6:30   ` Randy Dunlap
2024-01-04  6:42     ` Qu Wenruo
2024-01-04  6:50       ` Randy Dunlap
2024-01-04  6:55         ` Qu Wenruo
2024-01-03 23:27 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] kstrtox: add unit tests for memparse_safe() Qu Wenruo
2024-01-03 23:27 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] btrfs: migrate to the newer memparse_safe() helper Qu Wenruo
2024-01-06 14:34 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] kstrtox: introduce memparse_safe() Andy Shevchenko
2024-01-06 20:58   ` Qu Wenruo
2024-01-14 13:42     ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2024-01-14 20:01       ` Qu Wenruo
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2024-02-01 15:18 Andy Shevchenko

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