RE: scripts/mod/file2alias.c cross compile problem

From: Luck, Tony
Date: Thu Aug 16 2007 - 12:27:17 EST


> -#define ACPI_ID_LEN 9
> +#define ACPI_ID_LEN 16 /* only 9 bytes needed here, 16 bytes are used */

What will happen if someone uses more than 9 bytes? With the old
limit there would be a compile time error it someone initialized
with:

{"PNP0C0ABCDEFGH", 0},

But if we change ACPI_ID_LEN the error will move to run-time.

-Tony
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