Re: [PATCH] cpufreq:core: Fix printing of governor and driver name

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Oct 16 2012 - 12:16:59 EST


On Tuesday 16 of October 2012 09:09:15 Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 15 October 2012 23:21, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 10 of October 2012 10:12:11 Viresh Kumar wrote:
> >> Arrays for governer and driver name are of size CPUFREQ_NAME_LEN or 16.
> >> i.e. 15 bytes for name and 1 for trailing '\0'.
> >>
> >> When cpufreq driver print these names (for sysfs), it includes '\n' or ' ' in
> >> the fmt string and still passes length as CPUFREQ_NAME_LEN. If the driver or
> >> governor names are using all 15 fields allocated to them, then the trailing '\n'
> >> or ' ' will never be printed. And so commands like:
> >>
> >> root@linaro-developer# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_driver
> >>
> >> will print something like:
> >>
> >> cpufreq_foodrvroot@linaro-developer#
> >>
> >> Fix this by increasing print length by one character.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Thanks for the patch, I'll queue it up for v3.8.
>
> Hi Rafael,
>
> Thanks for accepting the patch.
> I thought both of my patches would go in 3.7-rc2 as they are bug
> fixes. Isn't that correct?

They don't fix serious bugs, though, so they don't look like urgent.

Thanks,
Rafael


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