Re: [PATCH] staging: speakup: replace simple_strtoul() with kstrtoint()

From: Sudip Mukherjee
Date: Wed Jun 24 2015 - 01:23:56 EST


On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 12:15:52AM +0100, Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 01:53:33AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > Nope. Your patch is totally wrong (buggy). Please be more careful in
> > the future.
> >
> > regards,
> > dan carpenter
> >
>
> I saw other commits replace the obsolete simple_strtoul() this way and the
> documentation makes it look like it is a 1 to 1 replacement.
>
> Sorry about this. I will investigate further to understand why this is buggy
> and be more careful in the future.
simple_strtoul returns unsigned long and kstrtoint gives int.
documentation says to use kstrtoul.

regards
sudip
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