Re: [PATCH] Make KOBJ_NAME_LEN match BUS_ID_SIZE

From: Patrick Mochel (mochel@osdl.org)
Date: Tue May 13 2003 - 10:08:35 EST


On Tue, 13 May 2003, Ben Collins wrote:

> On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 08:10:32AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 02:26:40AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > > This was causing me all sorts of problems with linux1394's 16-18 byte
> > > long bus_id lengths. The sysfs names were all broken.
> > >
> > > This not only makes KOBJ_NAME_LEN match BUS_ID_SIZE, but fixes the
> > > strncpy's in drivers/base/ so that it can't happen again (atleast the
> > > strings will be null terminated).
> >
> > What about defining BUS_ID_SIZE in terms of KOBJ_NAME_LEN?
>
> Ok, then add this in addition to the previous patch.

I'll add this, and sync with Linus this week, if he doesn't pick it up.

Thanks,

        -pat

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