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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-staging] [xen-unstable] ia64 and ppc: Remove us

To: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-staging] [xen-unstable] ia64 and ppc: Remove uses of strcpy and strncpy.
From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:25:36 -0700
Cc: Aron Griffis <aron@xxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 08:11 +0100, Christoph Egger wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 January 2007 00:47, Aron Griffis wrote:
> > Hi Christoph,
> >
> > Was this patch floated on xen-devel and/or xen-ia64-devel?  I'm having
> > trouble finding it, and I think I'm seeing some problems in it, see
> > below.
> 
> I posted it to xen-devel. I'm not subscribed on ia64-devel.
> 
> According to the troubles you pointed out indicates, that the
> ACPI header fields need one more byte for the NUL.

   Sorry, we don't have the luxury of redefining the ACPI spec to add a
NULL byte to pad out the fields.  This code is actually filling out fake
ACPI firmware tables. Thanks,

        Alex

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Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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