Of course the main reasons is that it silences a static checkers warning. :P drivers/net/wireless/prism54/isl_ioctl.c +2073 send_simple_event(12) error: strcpy() 'str' too large for 'memptr' (257 vs 256) regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html