Re: [PATCH v1] lib/vsprintf: update comment about simple_strto<foo>() functions

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 4:54 PM Uwe Kleine-KÃnig
<u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 10:57:23AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > The commit 885e68e8b7b1 ("kernel.h: update comment about simple_strto<foo>()
> > functions") updated a comment regard to simple_strto<foo>() functions, but
> > missed similar change in the vsprintf.c module.
> >
> > Update comments in vsprintf.c as well for simple_strto<foo>() functions.

...

> > - * This function is obsolete. Please use kstrtoull instead.
> > + * This function has caveats. Please use kstrtoull instead.

> I wonder if we instead want to create a set of functions that is
> versatile enough to cover kstrtoull and simple_strtoull. i.e. fix the
> rounding problems (that are the caveats, right?) and as calling
> convention use an errorvalued int return + an output-parameter of the
> corresponding type.

It wouldn't be possible to apply same rules to both. They both are
part of existing ABI.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko