Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] x86/boot: Split out parse_serial_port() helper for earlyprintk

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 03:50:15PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> Can, but with code uglifying to workaround kstrtox() restrictions.
> simple_strtox() _just works_ as expected.

simple_strtox() also has its problems.

> Requires buffer copying, finding digits there, making a proper termination. And

It needs a single kstrtoull() call to parse the port. And we have
kstrtoull() available in the compressed stage so pls do the conversion
ontop.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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