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>

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index d97ed5897447..d140e8fb075f 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -220,6 +220,23 @@ int __must_check _kstrtol(const char *s, unsigned int base, long *res);
 
 int __must_check kstrtoull(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsigned long long *res);
 int __must_check kstrtoll(const char *s, unsigned int base, long long *res);
+
+/**
+ * kstrtoul - convert a string to an unsigned 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.
+*/
 static inline int __must_check kstrtoul(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsigned long *res)
 {
 	/*
@@ -233,6 +250,22 @@ static inline int __must_check kstrtoul(const char *s, unsigned int base, unsign
 		return _kstrtoul(s, base, res);
 }
 
+/**
+ * kstrtol - convert a string to a 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.
+ */
 static inline int __must_check kstrtol(const char *s, unsigned int base, long *res)
 {
 	/*