From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
H Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
"Stuart R . Anderson" <stuart.r.anderson@intel.com>,
alan@linux.intel.com, x86@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/earlyprintk: Add a force option for pciserial device
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 11:17:57 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1810021112100.32062@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181002091627.3vm6ow4y7me2uju3@shbuild888>
On Tue, 2 Oct 2018, Feng Tang wrote:
> Hi Boris,
>
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 10:30:04PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 10:18:10PM +0800, Feng Tang wrote:
> > > As I rechecked, the baud rate for pciserial is optional, so there may
> > > be no ",baudrate" following the "force". So this 2 strncmp is to
> > > cover conditions for with and without baudrate.
> >
> > And what guarantees you have a space after the "force"?
> >
> > !strncmp(s, "force ", 6)
> > ^
>
> You are right, it can't be guranteed. Can we still use strncmp(s, "force", 5)
> and rely on developer to set it right? any suggestions? thanks,
I don't know why you want strncmp() in the first place. "force" is null
terminated already.
Thanks,
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-02 9:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-28 9:40 [PATCH v2] x86/earlyprintk: Add a force option for pciserial device Feng Tang
2018-09-29 16:34 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-09-30 13:16 ` Feng Tang
2018-10-01 12:39 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-10-01 14:18 ` Feng Tang
2018-10-01 20:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-10-02 9:16 ` Feng Tang
2018-10-02 9:17 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2018-10-02 9:48 ` Feng Tang
2018-10-02 10:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-10-02 12:10 ` Feng Tang
2018-10-02 15:31 ` Feng Tang
2018-10-02 15:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-10-02 15:49 ` Feng Tang
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