RE: [PATCH v2] kbuild: treat char as always unsigned

David Laight
2022-10-25T10:20:21Z

From: Linus Torvalds
> Sent: 24 October 2022 18:11
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>
> As far as I know, there are no actual rules for SSID character sets,
> and while using utf-8 or something else might cause interoperability
> problems, this driver seems to be just confused. If you want to check
> for "printable characters", that check is still wrong.

Are SSID even required to be printable at all?
While most systems only let you configure 'strings' I don't
remember that actually being a requirement.
(I've sure I read up on this years ago.)

The frame format will be using an explicit length.
So even embedded zeros may be valid!

David

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