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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: ath6kl-devel@qualcomm.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath6kl: print firmware capabilities
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:06:34 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1362506794.1759.2.camel@joe-AO722> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130305163842.32118.84598.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>

On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 18:38 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Printin the  firmware capabilities during the first firmware boot makes it easier to find out what
> features firmware supports.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/init.c
[]
> +static void ath6kl_init_fw_capas(struct ath6kl *ar, char *buf, size_t buf_len)
> +{
[]
> +		if (buf_len - len < 4) {
> +			ath6kl_warn("firmware capability buffer too small!\n");
> +			strncpy(buf, "<error>", buf_len);

4 is an odd size to use.
It seems weird to overwrite the known bits.
why not just add ...?




  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-05 18:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-05 16:38 [PATCH] ath6kl: print firmware capabilities Kalle Valo
2013-03-05 18:06 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2013-03-05 18:19   ` Kalle Valo
2013-03-05 18:31 ` Marcel Holtmann
2013-03-05 18:35   ` Kalle Valo
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-03-06  6:56 Kalle Valo
2013-03-18 11:34 ` Kalle Valo

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