Re: [PATCH] kernel: replace strict_strto*() with kstrto*()

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Sep 27 2013 - 16:17:45 EST


On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 19:53:53 +0200 Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Andrew,
>
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 09:50:39 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > There's some indication that this change might have broken handling of
> > signed types. See
> > https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2013-September/111758.html
> > and https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61811.
>
> It seems this is hurting more users than I would have expected, and
> people are spending significant amounts of time to figure out what the
> root cause to their problem is. May I suggest that my fix should find
> its way to Linus' tree rather sooner than later?
>

Done. I had to send that one by hand as I'm not at my desk...
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