linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] pda_power: add support for writeable properties

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Date:	Mon, 10 May 2010 15:29:48 +0200
From:	Daniel Mack <daniel@...aq.de>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Anton Vorontsov <cbou@...l.ru>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Andres Salomon <dilinger@...labora.co.uk>,
	Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
	Matt Reimer <mreimer@...p.net>,
	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] pda_power: add support for writeable properties

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:48:54AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 07:52:11PM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote:
> 
> > +	/* TODO: support other types than int */
> > +	ret = strict_strtol(buf, 10, &long_val);
> > +	if (ret < 0)
> > +		return ret;
> 
> It'd be nicer if we could error out if this is used on properties with
> an inappropriate type but we don't seem to have type information
> anywhere convenient for implementing that, which is a bit unfortunate.

Yep, hence the 'TODO' :)
So currently the verdict is: if we can't convert the input to an
integer, we bail.

> Otherwise this looks reasonable in itself.

Ok, thanks.

Daniel

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