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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 001 of 7] md: Support 'external' metadata for md arrays.
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 14:03:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071225140342.9d0ff789.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1071214062608.1815@suse.de>

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:26:08 +1100 NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:

> +	if (strncmp(buf, "external:", 9) == 0) {
> +		int namelen = len-9;
> +		if (namelen >= sizeof(mddev->metadata_type))
> +			namelen = sizeof(mddev->metadata_type)-1;
> +		strncpy(mddev->metadata_type, buf+9, namelen);
> +		mddev->metadata_type[namelen] = 0;
> +		if (namelen && mddev->metadata_type[namelen-1] == '\n')
> +			mddev->metadata_type[--namelen] = 0;
> +		mddev->persistent = 0;
> +		mddev->external = 1;

size_t would be a more appropriate type for `namelen'.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-25 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-14  6:26 [PATCH 000 of 7] md: Introduction EXPLAIN PATCH SET HERE NeilBrown
2007-12-14  6:26 ` [PATCH 001 of 7] md: Support 'external' metadata for md arrays NeilBrown
2007-12-25 22:03   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-12-14  6:26 ` [PATCH 002 of 7] md: Give userspace control over removing failed devices when external metdata in use NeilBrown
2007-12-14  6:26 ` [PATCH 003 of 7] md: Allow a maximum extent to be set for resyncing NeilBrown
2007-12-14  6:26 ` [PATCH 004 of 7] md: Allow devices to be shared between md arrays NeilBrown
2007-12-25 22:04   ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-14  6:26 ` [PATCH 005 of 7] md: Lock address when changing attributes of component devices NeilBrown
2007-12-14  6:26 ` [PATCH 006 of 7] md: Allow an md array to appear with 0 drives if it has external metadata NeilBrown
2007-12-14  6:26 ` [PATCH 007 of 7] md: Get name for block device in sysfs NeilBrown
2007-12-15 16:58   ` Kay Sievers
2007-12-16 22:43     ` Neil Brown
2007-12-17  2:10       ` Kay Sievers

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