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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:20:41 +0100
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 
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	Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, 
	David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] initramfs: get rid of custom hex2bin()
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> Here is the refactoring to show that. This is assumed to go via PRINTK
> tree.

No, initramfs is maintained by the VFS and we already carry other patches.

If you want the kstrtox changes to go another route then I will take the
first two changes in a stable branch that can be merged.

> 
> I have tested this on x86, but I believe the same result will be
> on big-endian CPUs (I deduced that from how strtox() works).

Did you rerun the kunit tests the original change was part of or did you
do some custom testing?