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Message-ID: <617E1C2C70743745A92448908E030B2A022DBC43@scsmsx411.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:26:42 -0700
From:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	<trenn@...e.de>, "Rusty Russell" <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	"Adrian Bunk" <bunk@...sta.de>, "Sam Ravnborg" <sam@...nborg.org>,
	"Jan Dittmer" <jdi@....org>, "Len Brown" <lenb@...nel.org>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	<linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: scripts/mod/file2alias.c cross compile problem

> -#define ACPI_ID_LEN	9
> +#define ACPI_ID_LEN	16 /* only 9 bytes needed here, 16 bytes are used */

What will happen if someone uses more than 9 bytes?  With the old
limit there would be a compile time error it someone initialized
with:

	{"PNP0C0ABCDEFGH", 0},

But if we change ACPI_ID_LEN the error will move to run-time.

-Tony
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