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Message-ID: <20110830175054.GB2660@tuxdriver.com> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:50:55 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com> To: Peter Hüwe <PeterHuewe@....de> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>, "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 On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 09:52:31PM +0200, Peter Hüwe wrote: > 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 I merged it to wireless-next yesterday. Thanks for the reminder! John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@...driver.com might be all we have. Be ready. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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