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Re: staging: wilc1000: Reduce scope for a few variables in mac_ioctl()

From SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: staging: wilc1000: Reduce scope for a few variables in mac_ioctl()
Date 2016-07-26 08:30 +0200
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>> -			if (strncasecmp(buff, "RSSI", length) == 0) {
>> +			if (strncasecmp(buff, "RSSI", 0) == 0) {
>> +				s8 rssi;
>> +
> 
> Um, please think a second about if it makes any sense at all to compare 
> zero chars of two strings.

Under which circumstances should the variable "length" contain an other
value than zero?

How can this open issue be fixed better?

Regards,
Markus

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Re: [PATCH 3/3] staging: wilc1000: Reduce scope for a few variables  in mac_ioctl() Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de> - 2016-07-25 21:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 3/3] staging: wilc1000: Reduce scope for a few variables  in mac_ioctl() walter harms <wharms@bfs.de> - 2016-07-25 21:40 +0200
  Re: staging: wilc1000: Reduce scope for a few variables in  mac_ioctl() SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2016-07-26 08:30 +0200
    Aw: Re: staging: wilc1000: Reduce scope for a few variables in  mac_ioctl() "Lino Sanfilippo" <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de> - 2016-07-28 13:50 +0200
      Re: staging: wilc1000: Reduce scope for a few variables in  mac_ioctl() SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2016-07-28 18:10 +0200

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