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From: 'Sebastian Reichel' <sre@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] power_supply: Introduce charging object table
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 15:08:32 +0100
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Hi,

On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 12:26:21PM +0000, Tc, Jenny wrote:
> > > +	char name[PSY_MAX_BAT_NAME_LEN];
> >=20
> > char *name;
> >=20
> > No need for arbitrary length limitation.
>=20
> The length limitation is introduced to form a packed structure so that
> the data can be read directly from memory without parsing.

This reason is ok for a device driver, but not for a kernel
subsystem.

-- Sebastian

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