Re: [PATCH v2 06/15] ACPI: LPSS: fix some coding style issues

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 3:39 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2021-03-27 at 10:19 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Saturday, March 27, 2021, Xiaofei Tan <tanxiaofei@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Fix some coding style issues reported by checkpatch.pl, including
> > > following types:
> > >
> > > WARNING: simple_strtol is obsolete, use kstrtol instead
> >
> >
> > And one more thing, the above message is bogus. Read what the comments in
> > the code says about use cases for simple_*() vs. kstrto*() ones.
> >
> > Joe?
>
> This check and message is nearly 10 years old and was appropriate for
> when it was implemented.
>
> kernel.h currently has:
>  * Use these functions if and only if you cannot use kstrto<foo>, because
>
> So the message could be changed to something like:
>
> WARNING: simple_strtol should be used only when kstrtol can not be used.

Fine with me, thanks!

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko