netdev - Re: [patch 28/28] Introduce strtol_check

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Date:	Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:39:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, satyam@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [patch 28/28] Introduce strtol_check_range()

From: akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:12:10 -0700

> From: Satyam Sharma <satyam@...radead.org>
> 
> Callers (especially "store" functions for sysfs or configfs attributes)
> that want to convert an input string to a number may often also want to
> check for simple input sanity or allowable range.  strtol10_check_range()
> of netconsole does this, so extract it out into lib/vsprintf.c, make it
> generic w.r.t.  base, and export it to the rest of the kernel and modules.
> 
> [akpm@...ux-foundation.org: cleanups]
> Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@...radead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>

This depends upon 27/28, which needs some fixes, so please
resubmit once that patch is cured.

Thanks.
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