linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] ide: Fix siimage driver accessing beyond array boundary

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Message-Id: <200710182330.43052.bzolnier@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:30:42 +0200
From:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
To:	benh@...nel.crashing.org
Cc:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>,
	Linux IDE <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] ide: Fix siimage driver accessing beyond array boundary

On Thursday 18 October 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 16:02 +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > 
> > > The siimage use an incorrect construct to access the other drive
> > > of a pair, causing it to access beyond an array boundary on non-0
> > > interfaces. This fixes it by using the new ide_get_paired_drive()
> > > hepler instead.
> > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
> > 
> >     Please update the driver version in the driver's heading comment. Otherwise
> > 
> > Acked-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>
> 
> I don't believe much in driver versions in tree... the kernel version is
> what matter... Bart, what's your stance there ?

Similar opinion here but sometimes driver versions are useful, i.e.:

* during development or while debugging regressions to distinguish
  real changes (which have to update driver version) from the core
  changes and trivial cleanups (which don't do this)

* bugreports with partial dmesg info (hmm, doesn't matter for IDE
  currently since we don't print this info - patches are welcomed)

* maybe some other that I forgot :)

I updated siimage driver version in separate commit
(no need to do it for cs5535 since it lacks driver version).

Thanks,
Bart
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