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| author | Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> | 2015-02-12 15:01:50 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-02-12 18:54:13 -0800 |
| commit | d1214c65c02d503330ce86bd38e344a36599e055 (patch) | |
| tree | e07829fc569c35be5860b239ad3e9c4e2b28e6cb /lib | |
| parent | 84b9fbedf54a6ea4fba62ef8a167138233586ad3 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-d1214c65c02d503330ce86bd38e344a36599e055.tar.gz lwn-d1214c65c02d503330ce86bd38e344a36599e055.zip | |
libstring_helpers.c:string_get_size(): return void
string_get_size() was documented to return an error, but in fact always
returned 0. Since the output always fits in 9 bytes, just document that
and let callers do what they do now: pass a small stack buffer and ignore
the return value.
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/string_helpers.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/string_helpers.c b/lib/string_helpers.c index 2b3757f84b3b..8f8c4417f228 100644 --- a/lib/string_helpers.c +++ b/lib/string_helpers.c @@ -20,12 +20,12 @@ * @len: length of buffer * * This function returns a string formatted to 3 significant figures - * giving the size in the required units. Returns 0 on success or - * error on failure. @buf is always zero terminated. + * giving the size in the required units. @buf should have room for + * at least 9 bytes and will always be zero terminated. * */ -int string_get_size(u64 size, const enum string_size_units units, - char *buf, int len) +void string_get_size(u64 size, const enum string_size_units units, + char *buf, int len) { static const char *const units_10[] = { "B", "kB", "MB", "GB", "TB", "PB", "EB" @@ -67,8 +67,6 @@ int string_get_size(u64 size, const enum string_size_units units, snprintf(buf, len, "%u%s %s", (u32)size, tmp, units_str[units][i]); - - return 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(string_get_size); |