linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 2/8] x86/boot: Copy kstrtoull() to compressed period

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Date:   Thu, 18 Oct 2018 12:03:38 +0800
From:   Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To:     Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        bp@...en8.de, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com,
        keescook@...omium.org, msys.mizuma@...il.com,
        indou.takao@...fujitsu.com, caoj.fnst@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 2/8] x86/boot: Copy kstrtoull() to compressed period

On 10/17/18 at 06:20pm, Chao Fan wrote:
> Copy kstrtoull() to 'compressed' directory so that
> we can use it to change the address in cmdline from
> string to unsigned long long.

So you don't like simple_strtoull() in arch/x86/boot/string.c which has
been used in boot/compressed/kaslr.c . Why? Are you going to clean up
simple_strtoull()?