Re: [GIT PULL] ACPI support fixes and cleanups for 7.2-rc1

From: Linus Torvalds

Date: Fri Jun 26 2026 - 16:33:09 EST


On Fri, 26 Jun 2026 at 13:13, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> How about just adding a trivial strncpy_pad() to
> <acpi/platform/acenv.h> or something. A place that already knows about
> the whole "I'm building the app side" now.

Actually, isn't this what tools/power/acpi/common/ are supposed to deal with?

IOW, maybe just add a "strncpy_pad()" implementation there?

(I'm not very cognizant of how this build is supposed to be done, soo..)

Linus