[PATCH v3 1/2] lib/string_helpers: Introduce tokenize_user_input()

Cezary Rojewski cezary.rojewski at intel.com
Fri Sep 2 09:46:25 CEST 2022


On 2022-09-01 9:34 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 8:40 PM Cezary Rojewski
> <cezary.rojewski at intel.com> wrote:

...

>> +int tokenize_user_input(const char __user *from, size_t count, int **tkns);
> 
> Not sure how I can deduct from the name what function is actually
> doing. Suggested new name: int_array_parse_user().
> 
> int int_array_parse_user(const char __user *from, size_t count, int **array);
> 
> (Note that we have _user suffix for many APIs in the kernel that does
> interact with user space memory)


That's why I've added '_user_' in the middle! Anyway, I guess the 
expectation is that it's a suffix - precisely at the end of the name.

Could we reorder it a bit: "parse_int_array_user"?

>> + * @tkns:      Returned pointer to sequence of integers
> 
> array

Ack.

> If you are okay with this, you may add my
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko at gmail.com>
> 


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