Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Sep 2013 19:09:51 -0500 | From | Bruno Wolff III <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kernel: replace strict_strto*() with kstrto*() |
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On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 13:18:20 -0700, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: >On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 19:53:53 +0200 Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote: > >> Andrew, >> >> On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 09:50:39 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: >> > There's some indication that this change might have broken handling of >> > signed types. See >> > https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2013-September/111758.html >> > and https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61811. >> >> It seems this is hurting more users than I would have expected, and >> people are spending significant amounts of time to figure out what the >> root cause to their problem is. May I suggest that my fix should find >> its way to Linus' tree rather sooner than later? >> > >Done. I had to send that one by hand as I'm not at my desk...
I just did a successful test of the patch from the mailing list. So it at least solved the problem in my case.
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