The patch titled Subject: memtest: use kstrtouint instead of simple_strtoul has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is memtest-use-kstrtouint-instead-of-simple_strtoul.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/memtest-use-kstrtouint-instead-of-simple_strtoul.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/memtest-use-kstrtouint-instead-of-simple_strtoul.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@xxxxxxx> Subject: memtest: use kstrtouint instead of simple_strtoul Since simple_strtoul is obsolete and memtest_pattern is type of int, use kstrtouint instead. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@xxxxxxx> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memtest.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/memtest.c~memtest-use-kstrtouint-instead-of-simple_strtoul mm/memtest.c --- a/mm/memtest.c~memtest-use-kstrtouint-instead-of-simple_strtoul +++ a/mm/memtest.c @@ -89,16 +89,18 @@ static void __init do_one_pass(u64 patte } /* default is disabled */ -static int memtest_pattern __initdata; +static unsigned int memtest_pattern __initdata; static int __init parse_memtest(char *arg) { + int ret = 0; + if (arg) - memtest_pattern = simple_strtoul(arg, NULL, 0); + ret = kstrtouint(arg, 0, &memtest_pattern); else memtest_pattern = ARRAY_SIZE(patterns); - return 0; + return ret; } early_param("memtest", parse_memtest); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from vladimir.murzin@xxxxxxx are memtest-use-kstrtouint-instead-of-simple_strtoul.patch memtest-cleanup-log-messages.patch memtest-remove-unused-header-files.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html