Re: [patch] usb: io_edgeport: eliminate get_string()

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On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 02:53:33PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Johan Hovold points out that get_string() is basically just a re-implimentation
> of usb_string().  It is also buggy.  It does DMA on the stack and it doesn't
> handle negative returns from usb_get_descriptor().  Plus unicode_to_ascii() is 
> a rubbish function and moving to usb_string() avoids using it.
> 
> Let's eliminate get_string() entirely.
> 
> Reported-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx

Why stable?  Does this fix an existing bug somewhere?

thanks,

greg k-h
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