Re: [PATCH] eliminate pci_dev name

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:36:03AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Actually, I think we should do the reverse (for testing), and make the
> name be something small like 8 bytes, and make sure that everybody who
> writes the name uses strncpy()  and snprintf() instead of just blindly
> writing whatever is in the database.
> 
> Otherwise we'll always end up having fragile magic constants.
> 
> Anybody willing to do that cleanup?

Sure, I can do that.  That leads me to think that maybe we should
delete name from struct device and just use the one in struct kobject
(which is already a mere 16 bytes).  But if we're going to go as far
down as the kobject... that has a dentry.  And dentrys have names.
So how about eliminating that too and just creating a dentry with the
almost infinitely long name?

Maybe that's too much at this stage of the game.

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