Re: [PATCH v11 3/5] x86/boot: Add get_acpi_rsdp() to parse RSDP in cmdlien from kexec

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Nov 13 2018 - 12:54:16 EST


On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 11:11:11AM -0500, Masayoshi Mizuma wrote:
> I think it's not very good idea to use kstrtoull() in
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/* because some tricks are needed to
> use the function, looks like Chao is trying...

Ok, I had a look at the patch. And frankly, I don't see anything wrong
with the aspect of using kstrtoull() in the compressed stage too and
getting rid of simple_strtoull().

So what are your reservations?

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Boris.

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