linux-kernel - [PATCH] net/core: simple

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Date:	Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:28:13 -0600
From:	Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@...il.com>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	shuahkhan@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] net/core: simple_strtoul cleanup

Changed net/core/net-sysfs.c: netdev_store() to use kstrtoul() 
instead of obsolete simple_strtoul().

>From 84371b0ed8b277ec8005fd0efbc73165a8bd72b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:36:10 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] net/core: simple_strtoul cleanup


Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@...il.com>
---
 net/core/net-sysfs.c |    5 ++---
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
index 4955862..97d0f24 100644
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -74,15 +74,14 @@ static ssize_t netdev_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
 			    int (*set)(struct net_device *, unsigned long))
 {
 	struct net_device *net = to_net_dev(dev);
-	char *endp;
 	unsigned long new;
 	int ret = -EINVAL;
 
 	if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
 		return -EPERM;
 
-	new = simple_strtoul(buf, &endp, 0);
-	if (endp == buf)
+	ret = kstrtoul(buf, 0, &new);
+	if (ret)
 		goto err;
 
 	if (!rtnl_trylock())
-- 
1.7.5.4



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