Re: [PATCH 7/7] staging: cxt1e1: remove unneeded a value

From: DaeSeok Youn
Date: Thu Mar 06 2014 - 02:47:49 EST


Ok.
I will use sizeof(name) for snprintf() call.

Thanks.
Daeseok Youn.

2014-03-06 16:33 GMT+09:00 Tobias Klauser <tklauser@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 2014-03-06 at 08:19:19 +0100, DaeSeok Youn <daeseok.youn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 2014-03-05 19:13 GMT+09:00 Tobias Klauser <tklauser@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> > On 2014-03-05 at 02:24:22 +0100, Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> It doesn't need to assign name array address to np pointer.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@xxxxxxxxx>
>> >> ---
>> >> drivers/staging/cxt1e1/linux.c | 5 ++---
>> >> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/drivers/staging/cxt1e1/linux.c b/drivers/staging/cxt1e1/linux.c
>> >> index 5bb42ae..cae8c66 100644
>> >> --- a/drivers/staging/cxt1e1/linux.c
>> >> +++ b/drivers/staging/cxt1e1/linux.c
>> >> @@ -205,15 +205,14 @@ status_t
>> >> c4_wq_port_init(mpi_t *pi)
>> >> {
>> >>
>> >> - char name[16], *np; /* NOTE: name of the queue limited by system
>> >> + char name[16]; /* NOTE: name of the queue limited by system
>> >> * to 10 characters */
>> >>
>> >> if (pi->wq_port)
>> >> return 0; /* already initialized */
>> >>
>> >> - np = name;
>> >> memset(name, 0, 16);
>> >
>> > This isn't necessary since s{,n}printf() adds a terminating '\0'.
>> Yes, I have looked at lib/vsprintf.c. I found it adds null to a string
>> in the end of vsnprintf() function.
>> I will remove memset() line.
>>
>> >
>> >> - sprintf(np, "%s%d", pi->up->devname, pi->portnum); /* IE pmcc4-01) */
>> >> + sprintf(name, "%s%d", pi->up->devname, pi->portnum); /* IE pmcc4-01) */
>> >
>> > Better use snprintf() here, even if the comment above claims the name
>> > never to be no longer than 10 characters.
>> OK. I will replace sprintf with snprintf() and set a string length to "10".
>
> It's probably fine to leave the string at length 16 (since there's also
> a number appended to it) and the use sizeof(name) for the snprintf call.
>
> Cheers
> Tobias
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