[PATCH] lib/cmdline.c: add to the get_options() documentation
From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Mon Aug 21 2017 - 05:46:59 EST
I wasn't sure how get_options() worked, so I looked at examples. And by
sheer chance the first example I picked the only example which uses it
incorrectly... I've added some comments that hopefully help.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/lib/cmdline.c b/lib/cmdline.c
index 4c0888c4a68d..0eb8d0ab60db 100644
--- a/lib/cmdline.c
+++ b/lib/cmdline.c
@@ -73,14 +73,15 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_option);
/**
* get_options - Parse a string into a list of integers
* @str: String to be parsed
- * @nints: size of integer array
+ * @nints: size of integer array (including the extra int at the start)
* @ints: integer array
*
* This function parses a string containing a comma-separated
* list of integers, a hyphen-separated range of _positive_ integers,
* or a combination of both. The parse halts when the array is
* full, or when no more numbers can be retrieved from the
- * string.
+ * string. It stores the number of numbers as the first element in the
+ * array.
*
* Return value is the character in the string which caused
* the parse to end (typically a null terminator, if @str is