Re: [PATCH] IDE-TAPE NULL terminate strings.

From: Sergei Shtylyov
Date: Mon Sep 22 2008 - 09:16:07 EST


Hello.

Mark de Wever wrote:

After updating my kernel to 2.6.26 the output for the ide-tape drive
during booting is garbled eg
ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0: Seagate <98>ß8A51|1À<81>ܺ<98>ß STT20000A rev 8A51|1À<81>ܺ<98>ß

This patch fixes the problem by NULL terminating the strings.

Looks like this bugs was introduced by this commit:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=41f81d545b6b1f585a02d1d8545978714f710e91

MBR, Sergei
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