The patch titled Subject: lib: add "on"/"off" support to kstrtobool has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is lib-add-on-off-support-to-kstrtobool.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/lib-add-on-off-support-to-kstrtobool.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/lib-add-on-off-support-to-kstrtobool.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: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: lib: add "on"/"off" support to kstrtobool Add support for "on" and "off" when converting to boolean. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Steve French <sfrench@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/kstrtox.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff -puN lib/kstrtox.c~lib-add-on-off-support-to-kstrtobool lib/kstrtox.c --- a/lib/kstrtox.c~lib-add-on-off-support-to-kstrtobool +++ a/lib/kstrtox.c @@ -347,6 +347,20 @@ int kstrtobool(const char *s, unsigned i case '0': *res = false; return 0; + case 'o': + case 'O': + switch (s[1]) { + case 'n': + case 'N': + *res = true; + return 0; + case 'f': + case 'F': + *res = false; + return 0; + default: + break; + } default: break; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx are lib-move-strtobool-to-kstrtobool.patch lib-update-single-char-callers-of-strtobool.patch lib-add-on-off-support-to-kstrtobool.patch param-convert-some-on-off-users-to-strtobool.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