Re: [PATCH v2 04/13] PCI: acpiphp: remove 'name' parameter

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 04:00:22AM -0600, Alex Chiang wrote:
> We do not need to manage our own name parameter, especially since
> the PCI core can change it on our behalf, in the case of duplicate
> slot names.

Looks good, just a question ...

>  	acpiphp_slot->slot = slot;
> -	snprintf(slot->name, sizeof(slot->name), "%u", slot->acpi_slot->sun);
> +	scnprintf(name, SLOT_NAME_SIZE, "%u", slot->acpi_slot->sun);
>  

What's the difference between snprintf and scnprintf?

And why were we bothering to use snprintf anyway?  For when we fall into a
parallel universe where a u32 can have more than twenty digits?

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operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
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