netdev - RE: [patch] qlcnic: silence false positive overflow warning

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Date:	Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:48:02 +0000
From:	Jitendra Kalsaria <jitendra.kalsaria@...gic.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
CC:	Sony Chacko <sony.chacko@...gic.com>,
	Dept-Eng Linux Driver <Linux-Driver@...gic.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org" <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [patch] qlcnic: silence false positive overflow warning

>From: Dan Carpenter [mailto:dan.carpenter@...cle.com] 
>Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:42 PM
>To: Jitendra Kalsaria
>Cc: Sony Chacko; Dept-Eng Linux Driver; netdev; kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
>Subject: [patch] qlcnic: silence false positive overflow warning
>
>We actually store the MAC address as well as the board_name here.  The
>longest board_name is 75 characters so there is more than enough room
>to hold the 17 character MAC and the ": " divider.  But making this
>buffer larger silences a static checker warning.
>
>Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
>---
>I'm not sure if this is worth sending.  Feel free to drop this if you
>want.

Acked-By: Jitendra Kalsaria <jitendra.kalsaria@...gic.com>


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