Re: PATCPATCH -- add unlimited name lengths support to sysfs

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 05:07:22PM -0600, Linda Xie wrote:
> diff -Nru a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
> --- a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c	Sun Dec 14 21:19:29 2003
> +++ b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c	Sun Dec 14 21:19:29 2003
> @@ -42,7 +42,10 @@
>  	struct kobject * p = kobj;
>  	int length = 1;
>  	do {
> -		length += strlen(p->name) + 1;
> +		if (p->k_name)
> +			length += strlen(p->k_name) + 1;
> +		else
> +			length += strlen(p->name) + 1;

Shouldn't this just be:
		length += strlen(kobject_name(p)) + 1;


> @@ -54,11 +57,20 @@
> 
>  	--length;
>  	for (p = kobj; p; p = p->parent) {
> -		int cur = strlen(p->name);
> -
> +		int cur;
> +		char *name;
> +		
> +		if (p->k_name) {
> +			cur = strlen(p->k_name);
> +			name = p->k_name;
> +		}
> +		else {
> +			cur = strlen(p->name);
> +			name = p->name;
> +		}

Same here, just use kobject_name() to get the proper pointer.

thanks,

greg k-h