linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] IDE-TAPE NULL terminate strings.

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Message-ID: <48D79ABD.8060805@ru.mvista.com>
Date:	Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:16:45 +0400
From:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>
To:	Mark de Wever <koraq@...all.nl>
Cc:	Gadi Oxman <gadio@...vision.net.il>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IDE-TAPE NULL terminate strings.

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>Üº<98>ß STT20000A rev 8A51|1À<81>Üº<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
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