Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] initramfs: get rid of custom hex2bin()

From: Christian Brauner

Date: Tue Jan 20 2026 - 06:20:46 EST


> Here is the refactoring to show that. This is assumed to go via PRINTK
> tree.

No, initramfs is maintained by the VFS and we already carry other patches.

If you want the kstrtox changes to go another route then I will take the
first two changes in a stable branch that can be merged.

>
> I have tested this on x86, but I believe the same result will be
> on big-endian CPUs (I deduced that from how strtox() works).

Did you rerun the kunit tests the original change was part of or did you
do some custom testing?