Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add a usr_strtobool function matching semantics ofexisting in kernel equivalents

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Tue Apr 19 2011 - 07:29:56 EST


On 04/19/11 02:36, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:23:43 +0000, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> This is a renamed and relocated fixed version of previous kstrtobool RFC
>
> Please just call it strtobool, usr_ implies it's a user pointer.
Will do. I guess that is still distinct enough from kstrto* to avoid
anyone expecting the semantics from this one.
>
> And there's no need to introduce a new var in debugfs, just do:
>
> if (strtobool(buf, &bv) == 0)
> *val = bv;
Excellent point.
>
> And yes, I'll take it for the param stuff.
Thanks. New version coming shortly.
>
> Thanks,
> Rusty.

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