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[v2,2/5] lib/cmdline: Update documentation to reflect behaviour

Message ID 20210120214547.89770-2-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
State New
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Series [v2,1/5] lib/cmdline_kunit: add a new test case for get_options() | expand

Commit Message

Andy Shevchenko Jan. 20, 2021, 9:45 p.m. UTC
get_options() API has some tricks to optimize that may be not so obvious
to the caller. Update documentation to reflect current behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
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 lib/cmdline.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Bartosz Golaszewski Jan. 22, 2021, 11:12 a.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 10:45 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> get_options() API has some tricks to optimize that may be not so obvious
> to the caller. Update documentation to reflect current behaviour.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  lib/cmdline.c | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/cmdline.c b/lib/cmdline.c
> index b390dd03363b..2a9ae2143e42 100644
> --- a/lib/cmdline.c
> +++ b/lib/cmdline.c
> @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_option);
>   *     get_options - Parse a string into a list of integers
>   *     @str: String to be parsed
>   *     @nints: size of integer array
> - *     @ints: integer array
> + *     @ints: integer array (must have a room for at least one element)
>   *
>   *     This function parses a string containing a comma-separated
>   *     list of integers, a hyphen-separated range of _positive_ integers,
> @@ -91,6 +91,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_option);
>   *     full, or when no more numbers can be retrieved from the
>   *     string.
>   *
> + *     Returns:
> + *
> + *     The first element is filled by the amount of the collected numbers
> + *     in the range. The rest is what was parsed from the @str.
> + *
>   *     Return value is the character in the string which caused
>   *     the parse to end (typically a null terminator, if @str is
>   *     completely parseable).
> --
> 2.29.2
>

Reviewed-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
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diff --git a/lib/cmdline.c b/lib/cmdline.c
index b390dd03363b..2a9ae2143e42 100644
--- a/lib/cmdline.c
+++ b/lib/cmdline.c
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@  EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_option);
  *	get_options - Parse a string into a list of integers
  *	@str: String to be parsed
  *	@nints: size of integer array
- *	@ints: integer array
+ *	@ints: integer array (must have a room for at least one element)
  *
  *	This function parses a string containing a comma-separated
  *	list of integers, a hyphen-separated range of _positive_ integers,
@@ -91,6 +91,11 @@  EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_option);
  *	full, or when no more numbers can be retrieved from the
  *	string.
  *
+ *	Returns:
+ *
+ *	The first element is filled by the amount of the collected numbers
+ *	in the range. The rest is what was parsed from the @str.
+ *
  *	Return value is the character in the string which caused
  *	the parse to end (typically a null terminator, if @str is
  *	completely parseable).