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Subject[PATCH] driver: dont update dev_name if it is not changed

notice one system /proc/iomem some entries missed the name for pci_devices

it turns that dev->dev.kobj name is changed after device_add.

[Impact: fix corrupted names in /proc/iomem ]

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>

---
lib/kobject.c | 13 +++++++++++--
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/lib/kobject.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/lib/kobject.c
+++ linux-2.6/lib/kobject.c
@@ -216,12 +216,21 @@ int kobject_set_name_vargs(struct kobjec
va_list vargs)
{
const char *old_name = kobj->name;
+ char *new_name;
char *s;

- kobj->name = kvasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, fmt, vargs);
- if (!kobj->name)
+ new_name = kvasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, fmt, vargs);
+ if (!new_name)
return -ENOMEM;

+ /* different ? */
+ if (!strcmp(new_name, old_name)) {
+ kfree(new_name);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ kobj->name = new_name;
+
/* ewww... some of these buggers have '/' in the name ... */
while ((s = strchr(kobj->name, '/')))
s[0] = '!';

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