Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8188eu: remove spaces, correct counts to unbreak P2P ioctls

From: Wilfried Klaebe
Date: Tue Mar 25 2014 - 14:45:15 EST


Am Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:17:49AM -0700 schrieb Greg KH:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 05:59:39PM +0000, Wilfried Klaebe wrote:
> > staging: rtl8188eu: remove spaces, correct counts to unbreak P2P ioctls
> >
> > It looks like someone did a search-and-replace on that driver, putting
> > spaces before "=" characters, without checking this is OK everywhere.
> > Also, in some places, there's memcpm()s/strncmp()s checking for some
> > different length than the fixed string argument.
> >
> > These things result in code not working as intended. Fix that.
>
> What code is parsing string output from the kernel?

I know about some userspace apps, for example a MiraCast Sink
implementation for the Raspberry Pi, called piracast.

This patch though is about the rtl8188eu driver parsing strings
handed to it via "iwpriv wlanX p2p_set name=value". Which breaks,
because the driver checks for "name =" instead of "name=" in several
cases.

Regards,
Wilfried

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