[PATCH 1/2] mtd-utils: improve simple_strtoX usage commentary

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 8 11:07:28 EDT 2011


From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy at nokia.com>

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy at nokia.com>
---
 include/common.h |   11 +++++++++++
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/common.h b/include/common.h
index 2e5c2a0..0e3526a 100644
--- a/include/common.h
+++ b/include/common.h
@@ -93,6 +93,17 @@ static inline int is_power_of_2(unsigned long long n)
  * simple_strtoX - convert a hex/dec/oct string into a number
  * @snum: buffer to convert
  * @error: set to 1 when buffer isn't fully consumed
+ *
+ * These functions are similar to the standard strtoX() functions, but they are
+ * a little bit easier to use if you want to convert full string of digits into
+ * the binary form. The typical usage:
+ *
+ * int error = 0;
+ * unsigned long num;
+ *
+ * num = simple_strtoul(str, &error);
+ * if (error || !is_valid_number(num))
+ * 	error_happened();
  */
 #define simple_strtoX(func, type) \
 static inline type simple_##func(const char *snum, int *error) \
-- 
1.7.2.3




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