Re: [RESEND] drivers: cpufreq: use kstrtoul instead of obsolete simple_strtoul issue fixed

From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Mon Apr 22 2019 - 03:11:35 EST


You mentioned RESEND in $subject, which is incorrect. This isn't a
simple resend but you changed the code. You should have mentioned V2
in $subject and ...

On 21-04-19, 18:05, mohankumar718@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Mohan Kumar <mohankumar718@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Replace the obsolte simple_strtoul function with kstrtoul.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mohan Kumar <mohankumar718@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Mentioned V1->V2 diff right here in the patch.

> drivers/cpufreq/elanfreq.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/elanfreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/elanfreq.c
> index 03419f064752..6d861c2364e2 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/elanfreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/elanfreq.c
> @@ -184,7 +184,8 @@ static int elanfreq_cpu_init(struct cpufreq_policy *policy)
> */
> static int __init elanfreq_setup(char *str)
> {
> - max_freq = simple_strtoul(str, &str, 0);
> + unsigned long int val = 0;

A blank line here would be nice.

> + max_freq = kstrtoul(str, 0, &val);

And this looks wrong. The value isn't returned by kstrtoul but an
error message or 0.

> pr_warn("You're using the deprecated elanfreq command line option. Use elanfreq.max_freq instead, please!\n");
> return 1;
> }
> --
> 2.17.1

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