Re: [PATCH 2/2] sunrpc/cache.h: replace simple_strtoul

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 09:04:03PM +0200, Eldad Zack wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 01:00:26AM +0200, Eldad Zack wrote:
> > > This patch replaces the usage of simple_strtoul with kstrtoint in
> > > get_int().
> > 
> > Why?
> 
> Since the simple_str* family don't account for overflow and AFAIK
> deprecated. Also, in this specific case, the long from strtol is 
> silently converted to an int by the caller.

OK, thanks.  Please use that as the changelog when you resend.  ("This
patch replaces..." tells me nothing I couldn't figure out from looking
at the patch.)

--b.
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