Re: [PATCH] kernel: replace strict_strto*() with kstrto*()

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 13:18:20 -0700,
  Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 19:53:53 +0200 Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Andrew,
> >
> > On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 09:50:39 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > > There's some indication that this change might have broken handling of
> > > signed types.  See
> > > https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2013-September/111758.html
> > > and https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61811.
> >
> > It seems this is hurting more users than I would have expected, and
> > people are spending significant amounts of time to figure out what the
> > root cause to their problem is. May I suggest that my fix should find
> > its way to Linus' tree rather sooner than later?
>
> Done.  I had to send that one by hand as I'm not at my desk...

I just did a successful test of the patch from the mailing list. So it at 
least solved the problem in my case.
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