Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:47943 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755842Ab1H3SAY (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:00:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:50:55 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Peter =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=FCwe?= Cc: Johannes Berg , "David S. Miller" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/mac80211/debugfs: Convert to kstrou8_from_user Message-ID: <20110830175054.GB2660@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20110830_200049_838624_5BE8F1F9) References: <1307478974-32727-1-git-send-email-peterhuewe@gmx.de> <201108282152.32180.PeterHuewe@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In-Reply-To: <201108282152.32180.PeterHuewe@gmx.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 09:52:31PM +0200, Peter H?we wrote: > Am Dienstag 07 Juni 2011, 22:36:14 schrieb Peter Huewe: > > This patch replaces the code for getting an number from a > > userspace buffer by a simple call to kstrou8_from_user. > > This makes it easier to read and less error prone. > > > > Since the old buffer was only 10 bytes long and the value is masked by a > > nibble-mask anyway, we don't need to use kstrtoul but rather kstrtou8. > > > > Kernel Version: v3.0-rc2 > > > > Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe > > Any updates on this one? > Still applies to the latest linus' tree I merged it to wireless-next yesterday. Thanks for the reminder! John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.