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From: "Rick L. Vinyard, Jr." <rvinyard@cs.nmsu.edu>
To: "Alan Stern" <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: "Linux USB" <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
	"LKML" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Purpose of parameter in sysfs binary read
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:43:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fc5d35d666d96f146ac06cd775368580.squirrel@intranet.cs.nmsu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0908181114020.3484-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>

Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Rick L. Vinyard, Jr. wrote:
>
> Neither one.  If the kernel wanted to add an offset to buf, it would
> have done so before calling the function.  The code should be more like
> this:
>
> 	memcpy(buf, bindata + offset, min(size, bsize - offset));
>

Ahhh, offset into the binary data.

Thanks.


      reply	other threads:[~2009-08-18 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-18 14:55 Rick L. Vinyard, Jr.
2009-08-18 15:14 ` Greg KH
2009-08-18 15:41   ` Rick L. Vinyard, Jr.
2009-08-18 16:02     ` Greg KH
2009-08-18 17:46       ` Rick L. Vinyard, Jr.
2009-08-19 16:05     ` Alan Cox
2009-08-19 17:41       ` Rick L. Vinyard, Jr.
2009-08-19 18:11         ` Greg KH
2009-08-19 18:26           ` Rick L. Vinyard, Jr.
2009-08-19 18:19         ` Alan Cox
2009-08-19 18:25           ` Rick L. Vinyard, Jr.
2009-08-19 18:34             ` Alan Cox
2009-11-25 19:19               ` Rick L. Vinyard, Jr.
2009-11-25 20:09                 ` Alan Cox
2009-12-02 17:06                   ` Dynamically attaching fbcon to a framebuffer Rick L. Vinyard, Jr.
2009-08-25 11:36         ` Purpose of parameter in sysfs binary read Pavel Machek
2009-08-18 15:16 ` Alan Stern
2009-08-18 15:43   ` Rick L. Vinyard, Jr. [this message]

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