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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [patch 28/28] Introduce strtol_check_range()
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:39:17 -0700 (PDT)
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From: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:12:10 -0700

> From: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
> 
> Callers (especially "store" functions for sysfs or configfs attributes)
> that want to convert an input string to a number may often also want to
> check for simple input sanity or allowable range.  strtol10_check_range()
> of netconsole does this, so extract it out into lib/vsprintf.c, make it
> generic w.r.t.  base, and export it to the rest of the kernel and modules.
> 
> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
> Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

This depends upon 27/28, which needs some fixes, so please
resubmit once that patch is cured.

Thanks.