Re: [PATCH] pci: fix unterminated pci_device_id lists

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 03:48:49PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
On 9/12/07, Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Kees Cook wrote:
This patch against 2.6.23-rc6 fixes a couple drivers that do not
correctly terminate their pci_device_id lists. This results in garbage
being spewed into modules.pcimap when the module happens to not have
28 NULL bytes following the table, and/or the last PCI ID is actually
truncated from the table when calculating the modules.alias PCI aliases,
cause those unfortunate device IDs to not auto-load.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@xxxxxxxxxx>

ACK

I mut say, non-terminated PCI ids lists are constant PITA. There should be
a way to a) put it in macro[1], so that terminator automatically added, and
b) still allow #ifdef inside table like, e.g. 8139too does.

[1] or not macro, because #ifdef inside macros aren't allowed.

If you know of a way to do this in an easier manner, patches are always
gladly accepted :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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