[ros-dev] Empty fields of DeviceNode leading to Death

[art yerkes]

Is there a reference for which registry keys fill (or are supposed to fill)
which members of DeviceNode?  I ask because I wind up finding all of the
combinations that lead to zeros and have a tough time figuring out which
registry values are needed to make them not be zero.

We have a lot of unchecked string functions on the DeviceNode fields in
io/pnpmgr.c, by the way.  I think i've stumbled on four such places so
far, but I suspect that the whole thing should be hardened together.

In any case it would be nice if someone could post a cheat sheet about
how to create a new device entry the right way, or write the code that
fills the DeviceNode in a more obvious way, so that it's easy to find
and see what fills what.
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