On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 05:57:13PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote: > 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? No, not really. If you can think of something that would work with git as-is, I'm sure that there would be people interested. thanks, greg k-h -- 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
