linux-kernel - [PATCH 5/7] hugetlb: replace sscanf by kstrtoul

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Date:	Sat, 12 Jul 2014 13:36:18 +0200
From:	Fabian Frederick <fabf@...net.be>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	paulus@...ba.org, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, Fabian Frederick <fabf@...net.be>
Subject: [PATCH 5/7] hugetlb: replace sscanf by kstrtoul

See checkpatch warning
"Prefer kstrto<type> to single variable sscanf"

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@...net.be>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index 7e70ae9..9118313 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ static int __init do_gpage_early_setup(char *param, char *val,
 		size = memparse(val, NULL);
 	} else if (strcmp(param, "hugepages") == 0) {
 		if (size != 0) {
-			if (sscanf(val, "%lu", &npages) <= 0)
+			if (kstrtoul(val, 0, &npages))
 				npages = 0;
 			gpage_npages[shift_to_mmu_psize(__ffs(size))] = npages;
 			size = 0;
-- 
1.9.1

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