kstrto*: add documentation
As Bruce Fields pointed out, kstrto* is currently lacking kerneldoc
comments. This patch adds kerneldoc comments to common variants of
kstrto*: kstrto(u)l, kstrto(u)ll and kstrto(u)int.
Signed-off-by: Eldad Zack <eldad@fogrefinery.com>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/lib/kstrtox.c b/lib/kstrtox.c
index c3615ea..f78ae0c 100644
--- a/lib/kstrtox.c
+++ b/lib/kstrtox.c
@@ -104,6 +104,22 @@
return 0;
}
+/**
+ * kstrtoull - convert a string to an unsigned long long
+ * @s: The start of the string. The string must be null-terminated, and may also
+ * include a single newline before its terminating null. The first character
+ * may also be a plus sign, but not a minus sign.
+ * @base: The number base to use. The maximum supported base is 16. If base is
+ * given as 0, then the base of the string is automatically detected with the
+ * conventional semantics - If it begins with 0x the number will be parsed as a
+ * hexadecimal (case insensitive), if it otherwise begins with 0, it will be
+ * parsed as an octal number. Otherwise it will be parsed as a decimal.
+ * @res: Where to write the result of the conversion on success.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 on success, -ERANGE on overflow and -EINVAL on parsing error.
+ * Used as a replacement for the obsolete simple_strtoull. Return code must
+ * be checked.
+ */
int kstrtoull(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsigned long long *res)
{
if (s[0] == '+')
@@ -112,6 +128,22 @@
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrtoull);
+/**
+ * kstrtoll - convert a string to a long long
+ * @s: The start of the string. The string must be null-terminated, and may also
+ * include a single newline before its terminating null. The first character
+ * may also be a plus sign or a minus sign.
+ * @base: The number base to use. The maximum supported base is 16. If base is
+ * given as 0, then the base of the string is automatically detected with the
+ * conventional semantics - If it begins with 0x the number will be parsed as a
+ * hexadecimal (case insensitive), if it otherwise begins with 0, it will be
+ * parsed as an octal number. Otherwise it will be parsed as a decimal.
+ * @res: Where to write the result of the conversion on success.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 on success, -ERANGE on overflow and -EINVAL on parsing error.
+ * Used as a replacement for the obsolete simple_strtoull. Return code must
+ * be checked.
+ */
int kstrtoll(const char *s, unsigned int base, long long *res)
{
unsigned long long tmp;
@@ -168,6 +200,22 @@
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(_kstrtol);
+/**
+ * kstrtouint - convert a string to an unsigned int
+ * @s: The start of the string. The string must be null-terminated, and may also
+ * include a single newline before its terminating null. The first character
+ * may also be a plus sign, but not a minus sign.
+ * @base: The number base to use. The maximum supported base is 16. If base is
+ * given as 0, then the base of the string is automatically detected with the
+ * conventional semantics - If it begins with 0x the number will be parsed as a
+ * hexadecimal (case insensitive), if it otherwise begins with 0, it will be
+ * parsed as an octal number. Otherwise it will be parsed as a decimal.
+ * @res: Where to write the result of the conversion on success.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 on success, -ERANGE on overflow and -EINVAL on parsing error.
+ * Used as a replacement for the obsolete simple_strtoull. Return code must
+ * be checked.
+ */
int kstrtouint(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsigned int *res)
{
unsigned long long tmp;
@@ -183,6 +231,22 @@
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrtouint);
+/**
+ * kstrtoint - convert a string to an int
+ * @s: The start of the string. The string must be null-terminated, and may also
+ * include a single newline before its terminating null. The first character
+ * may also be a plus sign or a minus sign.
+ * @base: The number base to use. The maximum supported base is 16. If base is
+ * given as 0, then the base of the string is automatically detected with the
+ * conventional semantics - If it begins with 0x the number will be parsed as a
+ * hexadecimal (case insensitive), if it otherwise begins with 0, it will be
+ * parsed as an octal number. Otherwise it will be parsed as a decimal.
+ * @res: Where to write the result of the conversion on success.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 on success, -ERANGE on overflow and -EINVAL on parsing error.
+ * Used as a replacement for the obsolete simple_strtoull. Return code must
+ * be checked.
+ */
int kstrtoint(const char *s, unsigned int base, int *res)
{
long long tmp;
