Messages in this thread | | | From | Jesse Barnes <> | Subject | Re: pci: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() | Date | Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:56:52 -0800 |
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On Wednesday, October 29, 2008 6:17 pm Kay Sievers wrote: > This patch is part of a larger patch series which will remove > the "char bus_id[20]" name string from struct device. The device > name is managed in the kobject anyway, and without any size > limitation, and just needlessly copied into "struct device". > > To set and read the device name dev_name(dev) and dev_set_name(dev) > must be used. If your code uses static kobjects, which it shouldn't > do, "const char *init_name" can be used to statically provide the > name the registered device should have. At registration time, the > init_name field is cleared, to enforce the use of dev_name(dev) to > access the device name at a later time. > > We need to get rid of all occurrences of bus_id in the entire tree > to be able to enable the new interface. Please apply this patch, > and possibly convert any remaining remaining occurrences of bus_id. > > We want to submit a patch to -next, which will remove bus_id from > "struct device", to find the remaining pieces to convert, and finally > switch over to the new api, which will remove the 20 bytes array > and does no longer have a size limitation.
Applied to linux-next, thanks.
Jesse
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