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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:16:45 +0400
From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
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To: Mark de Wever <koraq@xs4all.nl>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] IDE-TAPE NULL terminate strings.
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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>ܺ<98>ß STT20000A rev 8A51|1À<81>ܺ<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