Re: Patch to zftape-init.c in 2.3.47-pre2

From: Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 19:15:01 EST


Linus Torvalds writes:
>
>
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
> >
> > 8 characters was more than enough. I was wondering why this was
> > changed? Just curious.
>
> 8 characters was NOT enough for the other case. The patch I got changed
> both 8->9, and for the other case it was definitely needed ("nrawqft0\0"
> is nine characters).

Ah, I see. The jumbo devfs patch was wrong all along. No-one bothered
to tell me for ages. Snif.

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
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