linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] x86/boot: Split out parse_serial

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Date:   Thu, 28 Mar 2019 13:35:04 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] x86/boot: Split out parse_serial_port() helper
 for earlyprintk

On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 09:43:21PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> The newly introduced helper will be used later on to parse serial port
> in different type of earlyprintk command line arguments.
> 
> No functional change intended.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.c | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.c b/arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.c
> index 05d02cd4de99..85a227a21f95 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.c
> @@ -66,6 +66,20 @@ static void early_serial_init(unsigned long port, int baud)
>  	early_serial_base = port;
>  }
>  
> +static unsigned long parse_serial_port(const char *arg, int off, int *pos)
> +{
> +	unsigned long port;
> +	char *e;
> +
> +	port = simple_strtoull(arg + off, &e, 16);

WARNING: simple_strtoull is obsolete, use kstrtoull instead
#41: FILE: arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.c:74:
+       port = simple_strtoull(arg + off, &e, 16);

Please do a conversion patch ontop.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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