linux-kernel - [PATCH v1 3/4] vsprintf: Revert "add simple

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Message-ID: <20260119204151.1447503-4-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:38:40 +0100
From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Disseldorp <ddiss@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH v1 3/4] vsprintf: Revert "add simple_strntoul"

No users anymore and none should be in the first place.

This reverts commit fcc155008a20fa31b01569e105250490750f0687.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
---
 include/linux/kstrtox.h | 1 -
 lib/vsprintf.c          | 7 -------
 2 files changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kstrtox.h b/include/linux/kstrtox.h
index 6ea897222af1..7fcf29a4e0de 100644
--- a/include/linux/kstrtox.h
+++ b/include/linux/kstrtox.h
@@ -143,7 +143,6 @@ static inline int __must_check kstrtos32_from_user(const char __user *s, size_t
  */
 
 extern unsigned long simple_strtoul(const char *,char **,unsigned int);
-extern unsigned long simple_strntoul(const char *,char **,unsigned int,size_t);
 extern long simple_strtol(const char *,char **,unsigned int);
 extern unsigned long long simple_strtoull(const char *,char **,unsigned int);
 extern long long simple_strtoll(const char *,char **,unsigned int);
diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index 800b8ac49f53..52ea14a08d3a 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -129,13 +129,6 @@ unsigned long simple_strtoul(const char *cp, char **endp, unsigned int base)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_strtoul);
 
-unsigned long simple_strntoul(const char *cp, char **endp, unsigned int base,
-			      size_t max_chars)
-{
-	return simple_strntoull(cp, endp, base, max_chars);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_strntoul);
-
 /**
  * simple_strtol - convert a string to a signed long
  * @cp: The start of the string
-- 
2.50.1