Re: [PATCH] IDE-TAPE NULL terminate strings.

Sergei Shtylyov
2008-09-22T13:16:06Z

Hello.

Mark de Wever wrote:

> After updating my kernel to 2.6.26 the output for the ide-tape drive
> during booting is garbled eg
> ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0: Seagate <98>ß8A51|1À<81>Üº<98>ß STT20000A rev 8A51|1À<81>Üº<98>ß

> This patch fixes the problem by NULL terminating the strings.

Looks like this bugs was introduced by this commit:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=41f81d545b6b1f585a02d1d8545978714f710e91

MBR, Sergei