> The desired output should not be broken in conversion, which you did. I dared to change another source code place a bit too much perhaps. > Do you know how syslog works and why the transformation is not correct. I imagine that there are chances to improve the software situation a bit more, aren't there? > I am also curious as to why you are patching joydump? The discussed function implementation contains update candidates. One of them was detected by the execution of a script for the semantic patch language (Coccinelle software). I identified further update possibilities after the opportunity for using the function "kmalloc_array" also in this software module. > Are you working on extending it? I attempted just another software refactoring. Regards, Markus -- 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