From: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] efivars update
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 16:17:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-106252231223237@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-106219352715985@msgid-missing>
> > 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?
The problem is defining it. The dentry is not allocated until the kobject
is registered, and we call through to sysfs. That's not so much a problem,
but we'd have to pass the name along with the object down to sysfs in
order to create the dentry, which would be a bit messy, IMO.
Pat
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-02 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-29 21:24 [PATCH] efivars update Matt Tolentino
2003-08-29 21:59 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-08-29 22:17 ` Matt Domsch
2003-08-30 0:16 ` Tolentino, Matthew E
2003-08-30 2:08 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-02 16:17 ` Patrick Mochel [this message]
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