linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/11] lib: introduce common method to convert hex digits

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Message-Id: <20100309115743.48cc125b.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 9 Mar 2010 11:57:43 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andy Shevchenko <ext-andriy.shevchenko@...ia.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] lib: introduce common method to convert hex
 digits

On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 03:03:05 +0200
Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko@...il.com> wrote:
> > hex_to_bin() is a little method which converts hex digit to its actual value.
> > There are plenty of places where such functionality is needed.
> 
> I found another more than 10 places (roughly there are > 20 of them
> already) with such 'copy-paste' logic. Still waiting decision to
> include first patch of this series... Any comments, suggestions?

This patch series turned up two days before the 2.6.33 release, which
is fairly exactly the time when non-bugfixes won't get looked at!  I
stored it all away for consideration after we've finished the
2.6.34-rc1 merge scramble.

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