From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 02:08:41 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] efivars update Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 02:59:43PM -0700, Patrick Mochel wrote: > That patch is below. I'll be sending it to Linus once he gets back from > vacation, unless anyone has any serious objections to it. Note that it > completely removes any limitation on the length of a kobject (and sysfs > directory) name. Why keep another copy of the name? Why not use kobj->dentry->qstr->name? I thoroughly approve of kobject_name() though -- hide the implementation. -- "It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk