From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8188eu: remove spaces, correct counts to unbreak P2P ioctls
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:17:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140325181749.GE3233@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140325175939.GC17209@kaos.lebenslange-mailadresse.de>
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 05:59:39PM +0000, Wilfried Klaebe wrote:
> staging: rtl8188eu: remove spaces, correct counts to unbreak P2P ioctls
>
> It looks like someone did a search-and-replace on that driver, putting
> spaces before "=" characters, without checking this is OK everywhere.
> Also, in some places, there's memcpm()s/strncmp()s checking for some
> different length than the fixed string argument.
>
> These things result in code not working as intended. Fix that.
What code is parsing string output from the kernel?
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-25 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-25 17:59 [PATCH] staging: rtl8188eu: remove spaces, correct counts to unbreak P2P ioctls Wilfried Klaebe
2014-03-25 18:17 ` Greg KH [this message]
2014-03-25 18:36 ` Wilfried Klaebe
2014-03-25 18:51 ` Greg KH
2014-03-25 19:04 ` Wilfried Klaebe
2014-03-25 22:40 ` Greg KH
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