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

From: Bruno Wolff III
Date: Fri Sep 27 2013 - 20:20:14 EST


On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 13:18:20 -0700,
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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...

I just did a successful test of the patch from the mailing list. So it at least solved the problem in my case.
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