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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


      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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