Re: string conversion in a driver

[Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>]

> > 
> > strtok is defined in lib/string.c.
> > 
> > atoi is defined in arch/ia64/sn/io/sgi_if.c.
> > 
> 
> In case sscanf is available sscanf,"%d",&variable) is also an alternative
> !!

Is there any _sane_ reason for sscanf to do anything else, then to call strtol
(and the rest of strto* stuff)? AFAICS they are designed to be suitable as
sscanf helpers.

Now, I just looked at kernel vsprintf implementation.
It *DOES HAVE* these helpers. They are caled simple_strto*. They don't skip
leading white space, thus the simple_ prefix.

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