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Date:	Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:39:41 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	xemul@...allels.com, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: + procfs-add-vmflags-field-in-smaps-output-v3-fix-2.patch added
 to -mm tree

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 09:26:20PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi Stephen, could you please elaborate, which bad usage hiding could be there?
> 
> I though it might suppress a warning if someone added an entry with a >2
> character string, but testing shows that it does not, so that is OK.
> There is still no need for the cast, though, or the second set of
> braces.  The C standard allows fixed length char arrays to be initialised
> by string constants and discards the trailing NUL if necessary.

OK, fair enough. I'll post a new patch with all concerns fixed in one
pass. Thanks all for comments!
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