Re: [PATCH 019/117] Staging: hv: vmbus: Cleanup vmbus_uevent() code

Greg KH
2011-08-23T23:28:32Z

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:46:07AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> Now generate appropriate uevent based on the modalias string. As part of this,
> cleanup the existing uevent code.

Note, you just change the user api here, did you have tools that relied
on the old format? If so, they just broke :(

> + for (i = 0; i < (sizeof(struct hv_vmbus_device_id) * 2); i += 2)
> + sprintf(&alias_name[i], "%02x", dev->dev_type.b[i/2]);

Don't we have a type for printing out a uuid already?

And what's with the jumping by 2 yet dividing? What am I missing here?

greg k-h