linux-kernel - Re: drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/core.c:253:17: warning: 'strncpy' specified bound 50 equals destination size

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Message-Id: <20230726140515.368981-1-suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Date:   Wed, 26 Jul 2023 15:05:15 +0100
From:   Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
To:     rafael@...nel.org
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, coresight@...ts.linaro.org,
        sudeep.holla@....com, scclevenger@...amperecomputing.com,
        leo.yan@...aro.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        mike.leach@...aro.org, suzuki.poulose@....com
Subject: Re: drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/core.c:253:17: warning: 'strncpy' specified bound 50 equals destination size

On 25/07/2023 15:30, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 4:040x202FPM Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com> wrote:
>>
>> On 25/07/2023 15:00, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 3:270x202FPM Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 25/07/2023 13:28, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 12:350x202FPM Suzuki K Poulose
>>>>> <suzuki.poulose@....com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Rafael
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Apologies for hijacking this thread, but please please could
>>>>>> you respond to the following patch ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We have been waiting for your Ack since last two months.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/46a3d6d3-f14e-efde-83eb-5952f313f909@arm.com
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry about that, but I'm not sure why you need an ACK from me for
>>>>> this.0x00A0 AMBA is an ARM thing and I'm not even familiar with the driver
>>>>> in question.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I understand, but there is a change to the drivers/acpi/acpi_amba.c ,
>>>> which is technically under your maintenance. The change is removing
>>>> the custom hook for the ETMv4 ID from the AMBA list and moving it
>>>> directly under the ETMv4 driver. Greg would like an Ack from you
>>>> before that can be queued. It missed the merged window last time
>>>> due to that and didn't want to miss it again this time.
>>>
>>> OK, so please feel free to add an ACK from me to that patch.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>> It also would be good to find an ARM maintainer for acpi_amba.c, so
>>> people don't have to wait for my ACK on every change in that file.
>>
>> Sudeep Holla (our resident ACPI expert) has reviewed the patch, but
>> I guess he is in the Reviewer ranks.
>
> Well, next time you get a Reviewed-by from Sudeep on ARM-related ACPI
> material, it is far more meaningful than my ACK.0x00A0 You probably don't
> need the latter if you have the former.

Thanks Rafael.

For others wondering about the weird threading, the above happened via private
exchange of emails and linking to this patch for the record.


Suzuki