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Date:	Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:56:23 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...e.de>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re:

On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 21:45 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> The final piece of the driver core name limit. We are about to remove
> BUS_ID_SIZE.
> 
> Some patches may still be in your queue. Just to make sure, we will
> finish our task this time: David, David, James, Takashi, can you please
> give an update, or take care of removing the last instances, or let me
> know if you want a patch, or let us know, if we should just change it to
> "20".

I have this queued for 2.6.31 but have been on jury duty for the last 2
weeks so I'm hoping to get the pull request to Linus today now that I'm
free.

Was very unimpressed with the first version of the patch I saw, which
would have given me a potential buffer overflow if I'd just hard-coded
the buffer size AFAICT.

http://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6.git?a=commitdiff;h=81933046

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation

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