Re: [PATCH 4.20 regression fix] ACPICA: Fix handling of buffer-size in acpi_ex_write_data_to_field()

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On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 11:39 PM Schmauss, Erik <erik.schmauss@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> > I've queued this up, but I would like Bob and Erik to speak up too.
>
> Sorry for the late response.
>
> With the US holiday approaching, we need a little more time for us to look at this.
>
> There is a Kernel Bugzilla report on a similar issue and it would be nice for us to have more time to look at this.
>
> Here are my thoughts so far:
>
> a.) I'm not sure about the changes for the IPMI and SMBus cases... It might be fine.
> b.) This part of the specification needs a lot of work and we have requested for this portion to be re-written. The spec is incorrect and referencing this as a part of the commit message might be confusing to people who look at it in the future...
>
> It would be better for us to hold off on this patch until next week when Bob and I can discuss in person.

OK, fair enough.



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