linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH UPDATED] xen: add xenfs to allow usermode <-> Xen interaction

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Message-ID: <4949743C.2040306@goop.org>
Date:	Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:50:52 -0800
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	mingo@...e.hu, viro@....linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com, alex.zeffertt@...citrix.com,
	Ian.Campbell@...rix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH UPDATED] xen: add xenfs to allow usermode <-> Xen interaction

Andrew Morton wrote:
> I'm bored of your filesystem, so I think I'll just merge it, unless
> someone else wants to ;)
>   

Yay!  Boring code Wins!

> Was this noticed and considered?
>
> WARNING: consider using strict_strtoul in preference to simple_strtoul
> #543: FILE: drivers/xen/xenfs/xenbus.c:315:
> +               trans->handle.id = simple_strtoul(reply, NULL, 0);
>   

Noticed that, but wasn't sure how to handle an error there anyway.  
Something pretty horrible must have happened at the other end.

    J
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