Re: [RFC][PATCH] x86: Allow early_printk to use console style param like 115200n8

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Sat, 4 Jul 2015 13:03:59 +0200
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:

> So why not revert to the known-working simple_strtoul()? I don't see this as an 
> improvement:
> 
> > +		/*
> > +		 * In case the input is like console with text after the baud
> > +		 * rate. e.g. 115200n8. kstrtoul() will error on such input.
> > +		 */
> > +		for (p = s; *p && isdigit(*p); p++)
> > +			;
> > +		*p = 0;
> > +
> >  		if (kstrtoul(s, 0, &baud) < 0 || baud == 0)
> >  			baud = DEFAULT_BAUD;
> 
> 
> Over the old:
> 
> 		baud = simple_strtoul(s, &e, 0);
> 

That was what I actually did first, but then saw this:

 * Returns 0 on success, -ERANGE on overflow and -EINVAL on parsing error.
 * Used as a replacement for the obsolete simple_strtoull. Return code must
 * be checked.

in lib/kstrtox.c and thought that it seems that we are trying to phase
out that function. Personally, I prefer keeping it for instances like
this.

So by all means, put back the simple_strtoul(); I would like that too.

-- Steve