From: Robert Abel <rabel@robertabel.eu>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] auxdisplay: charlcd: fix hex literal ranges for graphics command
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:17:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <db968c03-f471-0ab5-2dba-74a567d2f6d1@robertabel.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHp75VfQUNVB9qoxcM5DSWz7Peu40oqtVO6dQse8ASRQa5ufEg@mail.gmail.com>
On 13 Feb 2018 14:36, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> I understand that we have a huge and hopefully nice library in the
> kernel, but the question still the same, what prevents a developer or
> maintainer to look at it from time to time?
>
> For, I dare to say, ages we have hex_to_bin() and hex2bin().
> Can we use it?
hex_to_bin look fine to me, although personally I'm not a big fan of its
use of tolower.
The current parser implementation is much more lenient than hex2bin,
however. hex2bin won't parse strings containing illegal characters
(which are currently skipped) or hexadecimal strings with an odd number
of digits (which are currently allowed and the final digit will be ignored).
I noticed the only part of the code that does make use of library
functions, parsing x and y coordinates using kstrtoul, is broken.
Apparently it used to use simple_strtoul, which worked and then got
replaced. So apparently looking over the kernel lib from time to time
can also do some harm ;)
Patch incoming :)
Regards,
Robert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-14 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-09 23:50 [PATCH 0/3] auxdisplay: charlcd: miscellaneous patches Robert Abel
2018-02-09 23:50 ` [PATCH 1/3] auxdisplay: charlcd: fix hex literal ranges for graphics command Robert Abel
2018-02-09 23:50 ` [PATCH 2/3] auxdisplay: charlcd: use null character instead of zero literal to terminate strings Robert Abel
2018-02-09 23:50 ` [PATCH 3/3] auxdisplay: charlcd: replace octal literal with form-feed escape sequence Robert Abel
2018-02-10 9:43 ` Miguel Ojeda
2018-02-10 9:29 ` [PATCH 2/3] auxdisplay: charlcd: use null character instead of zero literal to terminate strings Miguel Ojeda
2018-02-10 8:58 ` [PATCH 1/3] auxdisplay: charlcd: fix hex literal ranges for graphics command Miguel Ojeda
2018-02-10 9:20 ` Willy Tarreau
2018-02-10 9:41 ` Miguel Ojeda
2018-02-12 13:56 ` Miguel Ojeda
2018-02-13 13:36 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-02-13 19:15 ` Willy Tarreau
2018-02-14 23:17 ` Robert Abel [this message]
2018-02-15 10:57 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-02-25 23:34 ` Robert Abel
2018-02-25 23:52 ` Robert Abel
2018-02-25 23:54 ` Robert Abel
2018-02-25 23:54 ` [PATCH 1/4] auxdisplay: charlcd: fix two-line command ^[[LN not marked as processed Robert Abel
2018-02-25 23:54 ` [PATCH 2/4] auxdisplay: charlcd: name x/y address struct Robert Abel
2018-02-25 23:54 ` [PATCH 3/4] auxdisplay: charlcd: fix x/y address commands Robert Abel
2018-02-25 23:54 ` [PATCH 4/4] auxdisplay: charlcd: make home command unshift display Robert Abel
2018-02-26 17:16 ` Miguel Ojeda
2018-02-26 8:46 ` [PATCH 3/4] auxdisplay: charlcd: fix x/y address commands Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-02-26 22:29 ` Robert Abel
2018-02-26 11:44 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-02-26 16:54 ` Miguel Ojeda
2018-02-26 17:09 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-02-26 17:26 ` Miguel Ojeda
2018-02-26 17:56 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-02-26 23:00 ` Robert Abel
2018-02-26 22:38 ` Robert Abel
2018-02-26 23:06 ` Miguel Ojeda
2018-02-26 16:49 ` Miguel Ojeda
2018-02-26 16:57 ` Miguel Ojeda
2018-02-26 22:43 ` Robert Abel
2018-02-27 5:19 ` Willy Tarreau
2018-02-27 19:31 ` Miguel Ojeda
2018-02-27 23:29 ` Robert Abel
2018-02-28 0:05 ` [PATCH RFC 0/2] auxdisplay: charlcd: fix movement and home commands Robert Abel
2018-02-28 0:05 ` [PATCH 1/2] auxdisplay: charlcd: fix x/y address commands Robert Abel
2018-02-28 0:05 ` [PATCH 2/2] auxdisplay: charlcd: make home command unshift display Robert Abel
2018-02-28 4:21 ` [PATCH 3/4] auxdisplay: charlcd: fix x/y address commands Willy Tarreau
2018-02-26 23:05 ` Robert Abel
2018-02-27 5:20 ` Willy Tarreau
2018-02-26 8:35 ` [PATCH 2/4] auxdisplay: charlcd: name x/y address struct Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-02-26 15:59 ` Miguel Ojeda
2018-02-26 8:34 ` [PATCH 1/4] auxdisplay: charlcd: fix two-line command ^[[LN not marked as processed Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-02-26 15:53 ` Miguel Ojeda
2018-02-26 23:08 ` [PATCH 1/3] auxdisplay: charlcd: fix hex literal ranges for graphics command Robert Abel
2018-02-10 18:31 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-02-10 18:58 ` Willy Tarreau
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