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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: ACPI: Change the array size from 5 to 8 for
	acpi_bus_id
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 20:07:15 +0100
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On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 02:26:32PM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> what bad things happen if this patch is not applied --
> do some of those strcpy()'s overflow?

Looks like there'd be issues with the change to the CPU name on systems 
with lots of CPUs in ACPI.

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