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Subject: Re: sscanf in kernel
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On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 13:39, igeek <gds089@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 17, 2010, at 2:12 PM, serena zanetta wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I need to convert an ascii string in its corresponding hex version (the
>> same
>> as sscanf(str,"%02x%02x...",...) does) in the kernel.

FreeBSD has sscanf in the kernel.  See <sys/systm.h>.  That said,
sscanf is pretty evil =97 are you sure it's what you want?  Are you sure
you need to parse it in the kernel instead of in userland?

> sscanf() has a kernel version declared in kernel.h.
> http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/lxr/source/include/linux/kernel.h#L196

I believe you are confused.  FreeBSD is not Linux.