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- Lines: 29
- Date:
Fri Aug 11 19:14:46 2000
- Orig file:
v2.4.0-test6/linux/lib/cmdline.c
- Orig date:
Fri Jun 23 21:55:23 2000
diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.4.0-test6/linux/lib/cmdline.c linux/lib/cmdline.c
@@ -85,12 +85,12 @@
* @ptr: Where parse begins
* @retptr: (output) Pointer to next char after parse completes
*
- * Parses a string into a number. The number stored
- * at @ptr is potentially suffixed with %K (for
- * kilobytes, or 1024 bytes) or suffixed with %M (for
- * megabytes, or 1048576 bytes). If the number is suffixed
- * with K or M, then the return value is the number
- * multiplied by one kilobyte, or one megabyte, respectively.
+ * Parses a string into a number. The number stored at @ptr is
+ * potentially suffixed with %K (for kilobytes, or 1024 bytes),
+ * %M (for megabytes, or 1048576 bytes), or %G (for gigabytes, or
+ * 1073741824). If the number is suffixed with K, M, or G, then
+ * the return value is the number multiplied by one kilobyte, one
+ * megabyte, or one gigabyte, respectively.
*/
unsigned long memparse (char *ptr, char **retptr)
@@ -98,6 +98,9 @@
unsigned long ret = simple_strtoul (ptr, retptr, 0);
switch (**retptr) {
+ case 'G':
+ case 'g':
+ ret <<= 10;
case 'M':
case 'm':
ret <<= 10;
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