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authorEldad Zack <eldad@fogrefinery.com>2012-12-17 16:03:04 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-12-17 17:15:22 -0800
commit4c925d6031f719fad6ea8b1c94a636f4c0fea39b (patch)
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parent543f56c19c3e926d33b50a6bcbc37c408631601e (diff)
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kstrto*: add documentation
As Bruce Fields pointed out, kstrto* is currently lacking kerneldoc comments. This patch adds kerneldoc comments to common variants of kstrto*: kstrto(u)l, kstrto(u)ll and kstrto(u)int. Signed-off-by: Eldad Zack <eldad@fogrefinery.com> Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/lib/kstrtox.c b/lib/kstrtox.c
index c3615eab0cc3..f78ae0c0c4e2 100644
--- a/lib/kstrtox.c
+++ b/lib/kstrtox.c
@@ -104,6 +104,22 @@ static int _kstrtoull(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsigned long long *res)
return 0;
}
+/**
+ * kstrtoull - convert a string to an unsigned long long
+ * @s: The start of the string. The string must be null-terminated, and may also
+ * include a single newline before its terminating null. The first character
+ * may also be a plus sign, but not a minus sign.
+ * @base: The number base to use. The maximum supported base is 16. If base is
+ * given as 0, then the base of the string is automatically detected with the
+ * conventional semantics - If it begins with 0x the number will be parsed as a
+ * hexadecimal (case insensitive), if it otherwise begins with 0, it will be
+ * parsed as an octal number. Otherwise it will be parsed as a decimal.
+ * @res: Where to write the result of the conversion on success.
+ *
+ * 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.
+ */
int kstrtoull(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsigned long long *res)
{
if (s[0] == '+')
@@ -112,6 +128,22 @@ int kstrtoull(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsigned long long *res)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrtoull);
+/**
+ * kstrtoll - convert a string to a long long
+ * @s: The start of the string. The string must be null-terminated, and may also
+ * include a single newline before its terminating null. The first character
+ * may also be a plus sign or a minus sign.
+ * @base: The number base to use. The maximum supported base is 16. If base is
+ * given as 0, then the base of the string is automatically detected with the
+ * conventional semantics - If it begins with 0x the number will be parsed as a
+ * hexadecimal (case insensitive), if it otherwise begins with 0, it will be
+ * parsed as an octal number. Otherwise it will be parsed as a decimal.
+ * @res: Where to write the result of the conversion on success.
+ *
+ * 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.
+ */
int kstrtoll(const char *s, unsigned int base, long long *res)
{
unsigned long long tmp;
@@ -168,6 +200,22 @@ int _kstrtol(const char *s, unsigned int base, long *res)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(_kstrtol);
+/**
+ * kstrtouint - convert a string to an unsigned int
+ * @s: The start of the string. The string must be null-terminated, and may also
+ * include a single newline before its terminating null. The first character
+ * may also be a plus sign, but not a minus sign.
+ * @base: The number base to use. The maximum supported base is 16. If base is
+ * given as 0, then the base of the string is automatically detected with the
+ * conventional semantics - If it begins with 0x the number will be parsed as a
+ * hexadecimal (case insensitive), if it otherwise begins with 0, it will be
+ * parsed as an octal number. Otherwise it will be parsed as a decimal.
+ * @res: Where to write the result of the conversion on success.
+ *
+ * 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.
+ */
int kstrtouint(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsigned int *res)
{
unsigned long long tmp;
@@ -183,6 +231,22 @@ int kstrtouint(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsigned int *res)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrtouint);
+/**
+ * kstrtoint - convert a string to an int
+ * @s: The start of the string. The string must be null-terminated, and may also
+ * include a single newline before its terminating null. The first character
+ * may also be a plus sign or a minus sign.
+ * @base: The number base to use. The maximum supported base is 16. If base is
+ * given as 0, then the base of the string is automatically detected with the
+ * conventional semantics - If it begins with 0x the number will be parsed as a
+ * hexadecimal (case insensitive), if it otherwise begins with 0, it will be
+ * parsed as an octal number. Otherwise it will be parsed as a decimal.
+ * @res: Where to write the result of the conversion on success.
+ *
+ * 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.
+ */
int kstrtoint(const char *s, unsigned int base, int *res)
{
long long tmp;
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