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From: Joshua Clayton <stillcompiling@gmail.com>
To: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	Florian Schilhabel <florian.c.schilhabel@googlemail.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Nitin Kuppelur <nitinkuppelur@gmail.com>,
	Vaishali Thakkar <vthakkar1994@gmail.com>,
	Tapasweni Pathak <tapaswenipathak@gmail.com>,
	Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@intel.com>,
	Melike Yurtoglu <aysemelikeyurtoglu@gmail.com>,
	Max Perepelitsyn <mperepelitsyn@gmail.com>,
	Aya Mahfouz <mahfouz.saif.elyazal@gmail.com>,
	Cristina Opriceana <cristina.opriceana@gmail.com>,
	Dogukan Ergun <dogukan.ergun@gmail.com>,
	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	Haneen Mohammed <hamohammed.sa@gmail.com>,
	Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/8] staging: rtl8712: fix buggy size calculation
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 05:27:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3309030.zsCfj96v3x@diplodocus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150728114656.GF15027@sudip-pc>

On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 05:16:56 PM Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 09:41:10PM -0700, Joshua Clayton wrote:
> > r8712_get_ndis_wlan_bssid_ex_sz has a "6 * sizeof(unsigned long)"
> > where the underlying struct has a 6 * unsigned char.
> > Simplify the calculation by just subtracting the variable part from
> > the size of the struct.
> > 
> > This also gets rid of a use of typedef NDIS_802_11_RATES_EX
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Joshua Clayton <stillcompiling@gmail.com>
> > ---
> <snip>
> >  
> >  u8 *r8712_get_capability_from_ie(u8 *ie)
> 
> Something is wrong. The same patch is getting repeated in the same mail
> multiple times. I deleted almost 2500 lines after this before sending
> this reply. See how your patch is looking like:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/2224869
> 
> regards
> sudip
> 
Oh No!
I made a tweak to git-send-email to try to get past the problem with perl 5.22
That was causing git-send-email to crash.
The whole series, including the cover letter is like this.
I will resubmit when I have fixed this problem.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-28 12:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-28  4:41 [PATCH V3 0/8] clean up wlan_bssdef.h Joshua Clayton
2015-07-28  4:41 ` [PATCH V3 1/8] staging: rtl8712: fix buggy size calculation Joshua Clayton
2015-07-28 11:46   ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-07-28 12:27     ` Joshua Clayton [this message]
2015-07-28  4:41 ` [PATCH V3 2/8] staging: rtl8712: simplify " Joshua Clayton
2015-07-28  4:41 ` [PATCH V3 3/8] staging: rtl8712: fix comment Joshua Clayton
2015-07-28  4:41 ` [PATCH V3 4/8] staging: rtl8712: removed unused wrapper structs Joshua Clayton
2015-07-28  4:41 ` [PATCH V3 7/8] staging: rtl8712: remove typedefs Joshua Clayton
2015-07-28  5:27 ` [PATCH V3 0/8] clean up wlan_bssdef.h Julia Lawall
2015-07-28 12:38   ` Joshua Clayton
2015-07-28 14:15 ` [PATCH V3 RESEND 5/8] staging: rtl8712: remove duplicate struct Joshua Clayton
2015-07-28 14:15 ` [PATCH V3 RESEND 6/8] staging: rtl8712: rename function Joshua Clayton
2015-07-28 14:16 ` [PATCH V3 RESEND 8/8] staging: rtl8712: change SupportedRates to rates Joshua Clayton
2015-07-28 15:37   ` Julia Lawall
2015-07-28 15:50     ` Joshua Clayton
2015-07-28 15:53       ` Julia Lawall
2015-07-28 15:56       ` Dan Carpenter
2015-07-28 17:49         ` Joshua Clayton
2015-07-28 22:07           ` Dan Carpenter
2015-07-29 13:49 ` [PATCH V4 1/8] staging: rtl8712: fix buggy size calculation Joshua Clayton
2015-07-29 13:49 ` [PATCH V4 2/8] staging: rtl8712: simplify " Joshua Clayton
2015-07-29 13:50 ` [PATCH V4 3/8] staging: rtl8712: fix comment Joshua Clayton
2015-07-29 13:50 ` [PATCH V4 4/8] staging: rtl8712: removed unused wrapper structs Joshua Clayton
2015-07-29 13:50 ` [PATCH V4 5/8] staging: rtl8712: remove duplicate struct Joshua Clayton
2015-07-29 13:50 ` [PATCH V4 6/8] staging: rtl8712: rename function Joshua Clayton
2015-07-29 13:50 ` [PATCH V4 7/8] staging: rtl8712: remove typedefs Joshua Clayton
2015-07-29 13:50 ` [PATCH V4 8/8] staging: rtl8712: change SupportedRates to rates Joshua Clayton

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