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Message-Id: <201108282152.32180.PeterHuewe@gmx.de>
Date:	Sun, 28 Aug 2011 21:52:31 +0200
From:	Peter Hüwe <PeterHuewe@....de>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/mac80211/debugfs: Convert to kstrou8_from_user

Am Dienstag 07 Juni 2011, 22:36:14 schrieb Peter Huewe:
> This patch replaces the code for getting an number from a
> userspace buffer by a simple call to kstrou8_from_user.
> This makes it easier to read and less error prone.
> 
> Since the old buffer was only 10 bytes long and the value is masked by a
> nibble-mask anyway, we don't need to use kstrtoul but rather kstrtou8.
> 
> Kernel Version: v3.0-rc2
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@....de>

Any updates on this one?
Still applies to the latest linus' tree

Thanks,
Peter
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