The usage of simple_strtol is discouraged, because strtol() is obsolete. Instead kstrtol() should be used to convert a string into a long integer. Signed-off-by: Kitone Elvis Peter <elviskitone@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/brd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/brd.c b/drivers/block/brd.c index e2a1278..4b7a28e 100644 --- a/drivers/block/brd.c +++ b/drivers/block/brd.c @@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ MODULE_ALIAS("rd"); /* Legacy boot options - nonmodular */ static int __init ramdisk_size(char *str) { - rd_size = simple_strtol(str, NULL, 0); + rd_size = kstrtol(str, NULL, 0); return 1; } __setup("ramdisk_size=", ramdisk_size); -- 2.7.4