Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 19:53:53 +0200
From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>, Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: replace strict_strto*() with kstrto*()
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Andrew,

On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 09:50:39 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> There's some indication that this change might have broken handling of
> signed types.  See
> https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2013-September/111758.html
> and https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61811.

It seems this is hurting more users than I would have expected, and
people are spending significant amounts of time to figure out what the
root cause to their problem is. May I suggest that my fix should find
its way to Linus' tree rather sooner than later?

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare
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