Re: [PATCH V3 1/8] staging: rtl8712: fix buggy size calculation

[Joshua Clayton]

On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 05:16:56 PM Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 09:41:10PM -0700, Joshua Clayton wrote:
> > r8712_get_ndis_wlan_bssid_ex_sz has a "6 * sizeof(unsigned long)"
> > where the underlying struct has a 6 * unsigned char.
> > Simplify the calculation by just subtracting the variable part from
> > the size of the struct.
> > 
> > This also gets rid of a use of typedef NDIS_802_11_RATES_EX
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Joshua Clayton <stillcompiling@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> <snip>
> >  
> >  u8 *r8712_get_capability_from_ie(u8 *ie)
> 
> Something is wrong. The same patch is getting repeated in the same mail
> multiple times. I deleted almost 2500 lines after this before sending
> this reply. See how your patch is looking like:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/2224869
> 
> regards
> sudip
> 
Oh No!
I made a tweak to git-send-email to try to get past the problem with perl 5.22
That was causing git-send-email to crash.
The whole series, including the cover letter is like this.
I will resubmit when I have fixed this problem.
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