Re: [RFC][PATCH] x86: Allow early_printk to use console style param like 115200n8

[Ingo Molnar]

* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Jul 2015 13:03:59 +0200
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> > > +		/*
> > > +		 * In case the input is like console with text after the baud
> > > +		 * rate. e.g. 115200n8. kstrtoul() will error on such input.
> > > +		 */
> > > +		for (p = s; *p && isdigit(*p); p++)
> > > +			;
> > > +		*p = 0;
> > > +
> > >  		if (kstrtoul(s, 0, &baud) < 0 || baud == 0)
> > >  			baud = DEFAULT_BAUD;
> > 
> >
> 
> This was actually one of those cases where I wanted to show that keeping the old 
> function around is better than the alternative ;-)
> 
> If people say we need to phase out simple_strtoull(), then I wanted to show what 
> kinds of hacks we will have if that happens.
> 
> I was hoping that someone would point out that simple_strtoull() is a better 
> solution. :)

LOL :)

	Ingo
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