linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: speakup: replace simple

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Date:	Thu, 25 Jun 2015 11:19:42 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Luis de Bethencourt <luis@...ethencourt.com>
Cc:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Kirk Reiser <kirk@...sers.ca>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	speakup@...ux-speakup.org,
	Melike Yurtoglu <aysemelikeyurtoglu@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Domagoj Trsan <domagoj.trsan@...il.com>,
	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>,
	Chris Brannon <chris@...-brannons.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: speakup: replace simple_strtoul() with
 kstrtoint()

Probably once you start writing a patch you will figure it out.  :)

keymap_store() is a crap function.  We have the cp1 pointer that points
to the end of two back to back 3 char arrays.  The name cp1 is because
it is the second copy of the cp buffer which is a copy of the buf
buffer.  Since it is a backwards array we use cp1[-3] where normally we
would say array[0] and cp1[-1] to mean the last element in the array.

We need around 6 characters in cp1, but we are only garaunteed to have
2.  There is no checking.

Lots of checkpatch.pl warnings.

Just focus on cleaning up keymap_store() and hopefully at the end you
can just delete spk_s2uchar().

regards,
dan carpenter

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