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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:47:05 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [RESEND][PATCH] early platform drivers V2
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On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:54:36 +0900
Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com> wrote:

> This patch is V2 of the early platform driver implementation.

Is this checkpatch whine:

WARNING: consider using strict_strtoul in preference to simple_strtoul
#112: FILE: drivers/base/platform.c:1017:
+                       id = simple_strtoul(buf +

total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 201 lines checked

appropriate?

If the user provided "43foo", do we want to treat that as 42, or as
error?

If the user provided just "foo" then afacit we'll currently treat that
as zero.


<this is all mad guesswork, as I don't have any idea what the user
interfacce to this feature looks like>

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