[PATCH] powerpc: Add of_register_i2c_devices()
Guennadi Liakhovetski
g.liakhovetski at gmx.de
Wed Aug 1 15:41:45 EST 2007
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > > > + strncpy(info->driver_name, i2c_devices[i].i2c_driver,
> > > > KOBJ_NAME_LEN);
> > > > + strncpy(info->type, i2c_devices[i].i2c_type, I2C_NAME_SIZE);
> > >
> > > Why not just strcpy(), btw?
> >
> > Because target strings are finite length, and sources are just pointers to
> > some constant strings, which one might make arbitrarily long.
>
> So it's no problem if the name or type string gets cut short?
> Just checking :-)
Then it just won't match. Which is also the expected behaviour, IMHO, if
someone specifies a name longer than possible maximum length of the
variable it should match.
Have I passed or failed?:-)
Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski
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