From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: kobject_set_name() uses GFP_KERNEL
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 09:21:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1241540502.2987.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
Hi Kay,
all the users of kobject_set_name() which includes dev_set_name() are
allocating their memory for the device name with GFP_KERNEL. It is not a
big deal since device_add() does the same. However it is not obvious and
I ran into an issue in the Bluetooth stack where I was setting the
device name from a context that can't sleep. If this behavior is on
purpose, we better add an extra comment in the documentation.
Regards
Marcel
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2009-05-05 16:21 Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2009-05-06 13:17 ` kobject_set_name() uses GFP_KERNEL Kay Sievers
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