linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/7] powerpc/powernv: replace sscanf %lx by kstrtoul 16

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Message-Id: <1405164980-9525-4-git-send-email-fabf@skynet.be>
Date:	Sat, 12 Jul 2014 13:36:16 +0200
From:	Fabian Frederick <fabf@...net.be>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	paulus@...ba.org, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, Fabian Frederick <fabf@...net.be>
Subject: [PATCH 3/7] powerpc/powernv: replace sscanf %lx by kstrtoul 16

See checkpatch warning
"Prefer kstrto<type> to single variable sscanf"

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@...net.be>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/subcore.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/subcore.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/subcore.c
index 894ecb3..79721b2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/subcore.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/subcore.c
@@ -337,9 +337,9 @@ static ssize_t __used store_subcores_per_core(struct device *dev,
 
 	/* We are serialised by the attribute lock */
 
-	rc = sscanf(buf, "%lx", &val);
-	if (rc != 1)
-		return -EINVAL;
+	rc = kstrtoul(buf, 16, &val);
+	if (rc)
+		return rc;
 
 	switch (val) {
 	case 1:
-- 
1.9.1

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