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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 14:32:47 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] sscanf: don't ignore field widths for numeric
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On Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:44:08 +0000
"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:

> This is another step towards better standard conformance. Rather than
> adding a local buffer to store the specified portion of the string
> (with the need to enforce an arbitrary maximum supported width to
> limit the buffer size), do a maximum width conversion and then drop as
> much of it as is necessary to meet the caller's request.
> 
> Also fail on negative field widths.
> 
> ...
>
> +				simple_strtol(str, &next, base) :

simple_strtol() kerndoc says "This function is obsolete.  Please use
kstrtol instead."  Can we?