On Wed, Aug 19 2015, Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> whoa, wait, I was looking at the -mm tree which changes kstrtouint():
>
> static inline int __must_check kstrtouint(const char *s, unsigned int base,
> unsigned int *res)
> {
> return parse_integer(s, base | PARSE_INTEGER_NEWLINE, res);
> }
>
> and
>
> * Return number of characters parsed or -E.
> ...
> */
> #define parse_integer(s, base, val) \
>
>
> Alexey, doesn't this mean that code which does
>
> if (kstrtouint(...))
> return -EFOO;
>
> will break?
No, because PARSE_INTEGER_NEWLINE means more than just accepting a
trailing newline. It also requires the entire string to be consumed, and
changes the return semantics.
I suggested splitting those three things into separate flags and letting
PARSE_INTEGER_KSTRTOX be a shorthand for those.
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1949066/focus=1949239>
Rasmus
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