-#define HEX_DIGITS 16
-
-static unsigned int parse_hex_value (const char *buffer,
- unsigned long count, unsigned long *ret)
-{
- unsigned char hexnum [HEX_DIGITS];
- unsigned long value;
- int i;
-
- if (!count)
- return -EINVAL;
- if (count > HEX_DIGITS)
- count = HEX_DIGITS;
- if (copy_from_user(hexnum, buffer, count))
- return -EFAULT;
-
- /*
- * Parse the first 8 characters as a hex string, any non-hex char
- * is end-of-string. '00e1', 'e1', '00E1', 'E1' are all the same.
- */
- value = 0;
-
- for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
- unsigned int c = hexnum[i];
-
- switch (c) {
- case '0' ... '9': c -= '0'; break;
- case 'a' ... 'f': c -= 'a'-10; break;
- case 'A' ... 'F': c -= 'A'-10; break;
- default:
- goto out;
- }
- value = (value << 4) | c;
- }
-out:
- *ret = value;
- return 0;
-}
-