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 Acked. How do we generally deal with patches with multiple authors? This patch is a logical and obvious extension of the patch I submitted yesterday, which in turn was a fix (implemented from scratch) for two bugs pointed out by Dan. This particular change is trivial of course, but are there any general guidelines for such cases? Thanks, Johan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
