[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: replace strict_strtoul with kstrtoul

Jincheng Miao jmiao at redhat.com
Thu Oct 30 03:30:23 CET 2014


On 10/30/2014 08:04 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> Hi Jincheng,
>
> 2014-10-24 15:07, Jincheng Miao:
>>  From upstream kernel commit 3db2e9cd, strict_strto* serial functions
>> are removed. So that we should directly used kstrtoul instead.
> kstrtoul appeared in version 2.6.39 in commit 33ee3b2e2eb9b
> ("kstrto*: converting strings to integers done (hopefully) right")
>
> So we need a compatibility fallback.

Hi Thomas,

The solution could be simple, we could check the version of kernel,
and define a macro kstrtoul for old kernel.

Regards & thanks,
Jincheng Miao


>
> Thanks



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