From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
To: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@amd.com>
Cc: Aron Griffis <aron@hp.com>, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: Re: [Xen-staging] [xen-unstable] ia64 and ppc: Remove uses of strcpy and strncpy.
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:25:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1170163536.10792.98.camel@bling> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701300811.47729.Christoph.Egger@amd.com>
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 08:11 +0100, Christoph Egger wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 January 2007 00:47, Aron Griffis wrote:
> > Hi Christoph,
> >
> > Was this patch floated on xen-devel and/or xen-ia64-devel? I'm having
> > trouble finding it, and I think I'm seeing some problems in it, see
> > below.
>
> I posted it to xen-devel. I'm not subscribed on ia64-devel.
>
> According to the troubles you pointed out indicates, that the
> ACPI header fields need one more byte for the NUL.
Sorry, we don't have the luxury of redefining the ACPI spec to add a
NULL byte to pad out the fields. This code is actually filling out fake
ACPI firmware tables. Thanks,
Alex
--
Alex Williamson HP Open Source & Linux Org.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-30 13:25 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <200701291502.l0TF2Md1000372@latara.uk.xensource.com>
2007-01-29 23:47 ` [Xen-staging] [xen-unstable] ia64 and ppc: Remove uses of strcpy and strncpy Aron Griffis
2007-01-30 7:11 ` Christoph Egger
2007-01-30 13:25 ` Alex Williamson [this message]
2007-01-30 13:50 ` Aron Griffis
2007-01-29 23:53 ` Aron Griffis
2007-01-30 0:06 ` Aron Griffis
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