[PATCH v3 1/3] leds: triggers: provide led_trigger_register_format()

[pavel@ucw.cz (Pavel Machek)]

On Thu 2018-05-10 13:21:01, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > This allows one to simplify drivers that provide a trigger with a
> > non-constant name (e.g. one trigger per device with the trigger name
> > depending on the device's name).
> > 
> > Internally the memory the name member of struct led_trigger points to
> > now always allocated dynamically instead of just taken from the caller.
> > 
> > The function led_trigger_rename_static() must be changed accordingly and
> > was renamed to led_trigger_rename() for consistency, with the only user
> > adapted.
> 
> Well, I'm not sure if we want to have _that_ many trigger. Trigger
> interface is going to become.. "interesting".
> 
> We have 4K limit on total number of triggers. We use rather strange
> interface to select trigger.
> 
> > @@ -115,13 +115,13 @@ static int can_led_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long msg,
> >  
> >  	if (msg == NETDEV_CHANGENAME) {
> >  		snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "%s-tx", netdev->name);
> > -		led_trigger_rename_static(name, priv->tx_led_trig);
> > +		led_trigger_rename(priv->tx_led_trig, name);
> >  
> >  		snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "%s-rx", netdev->name);
> > -		led_trigger_rename_static(name, priv->rx_led_trig);
> > +		led_trigger_rename(priv->rx_led_trig, name);
> >  
> >  		snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "%s-rxtx", netdev->name);
> > -		led_trigger_rename_static(name, priv->rxtx_led_trig);
> > +		led_trigger_rename(priv->rxtx_led_trig, name);
> >  	}
> >  
> 
> I know this is not your fault, but if you have a space or "[]" in
> netdev names, confusing things will happen.

Hmm. If we are doing this we really should check trigger names for
forbidden characters. At least "[] " should be forbidden.
								Pavel

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