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authorRasmus Villemoes2015-02-13 00:01:50 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds2015-02-13 03:54:13 +0100
commitd1214c65c02d503330ce86bd38e344a36599e055 (patch)
treee07829fc569c35be5860b239ad3e9c4e2b28e6cb /include/linux/string_helpers.h
parentlib/string_helpers.c:string_get_size(): use 32 bit arithmetic when possible (diff)
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libstring_helpers.c:string_get_size(): return void
string_get_size() was documented to return an error, but in fact always returned 0. Since the output always fits in 9 bytes, just document that and let callers do what they do now: pass a small stack buffer and ignore the return value. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/string_helpers.h b/include/linux/string_helpers.h
index 6eb567ac56bc..657571817260 100644
--- a/include/linux/string_helpers.h
+++ b/include/linux/string_helpers.h
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ enum string_size_units {
STRING_UNITS_2, /* use binary powers of 2^10 */
};
-int string_get_size(u64 size, enum string_size_units units,
- char *buf, int len);
+void string_get_size(u64 size, enum string_size_units units,
+ char *buf, int len);
#define UNESCAPE_SPACE 0x01
#define UNESCAPE_OCTAL 0x02