Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] dell-laptop: Clear buffer before each SMBIOS call

From	Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] dell-laptop: Clear buffer before each SMBIOS call
Date	2015-07-07 00:40 +0200
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On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 12:08:55PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> Make sure that before initializing SMBIOS call input buffer does not
> contain any garbage (e.g. values from previous SMBIOS call). This fix
> problem with passing undefined/random parameters to SMBIOS functions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>

Queued all 3 to fixes. Thanks Pali.

(I made a few minor grammatical fixes tot he commit messages, review the changes
if you like in the fixes branch)

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
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Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] dell-laptop: Clear buffer before each SMBIOS call Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2015-07-07 00:40 +0200

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