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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
	virtualization@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: hv: storvsc: Show the modulename in /sys/class/scsi_host/*/proc_name
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 12:12:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110908191237.GB8552@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110908162650.GA10699@aepfle.de>

On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 06:26:50PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> 
> mkinitrd relies on /sys/class/scsi_host/*/proc_name instead of
> /sys/block/sd*/device/../../../moalias to get the scsi driver module
> name.
> As a fallback the sysfs driver name could be used, which does not match
> the module name either ('storvsc' vs. 'hv_storvsc').
> 
> Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
> 
> ---
>  drivers/staging/hv/storvsc_drv.c |    3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- a/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/storvsc_drv.c
> @@ -1333,7 +1333,8 @@ static DEF_SCSI_QCMD(storvsc_queuecomman
>  /* Scsi driver */
>  static struct scsi_host_template scsi_driver = {
>  	.module	=		THIS_MODULE,
> -	.name =			"storvsc_host_t",
> +	.name =			"hv_storvsc",
> +	.proc_name =		"hv_storvsc",

Shouldn't this be MODULE_NAME so it handles any potential name change in
the future and makes it a bit more obvious as to what is going on here?

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-08 19:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-08 16:26 [PATCH] Staging: hv: storvsc: Show the modulename in /sys/class/scsi_host/*/proc_name Olaf Hering
2011-09-08 16:55 ` KY Srinivasan
2011-09-08 16:55   ` KY Srinivasan
2011-09-08 19:12 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-09-09  8:45   ` Olaf Hering
2011-09-09 15:24     ` Greg KH
2011-09-09 12:45 ` [PATCH] Staging: hv: storvsc: advertise hv_storvsc instead of storvsc as driver name Olaf Hering
2011-09-09 15:25   ` Greg KH
2011-09-09 12:46 ` [PATCH] Staging: hv: netvsc: advertise hv_netvsc instead of netvsc " Olaf Hering

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