linux-kernel - Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v3 3/3] dm: lookup devices by path with name_to_dev

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Date:	Mon, 24 May 2010 12:57:37 +0100
From:	Alasdair G Kergon <agk@...hat.com>
To:	Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>
Cc:	dm-devel@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	snitzer@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v3 3/3] dm: lookup devices by path with
	name_to_dev_t

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 01:38:24PM -0500, Will Drewry wrote:
> +	char base_path[32];  /* size from name_to_dev_t */
  
> +	/* stage the shorter path for name_to_dev_t. */
> +	strncpy(base_path, path, sizeof(base_path));

I'm dropping that, and just passing path directly, so the strlen test
will be used.  (There's a "name += 5" in there so 32 would ignore
any longer standard names anyway.)

Alasdair

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