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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI vendor and device strings in sysfs
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:35:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030718023552.GA5926@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030717101123.GA6069@in.ibm.com>

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 03:41:24PM +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here is a patch against 2.6.0-test1 to display PCI vendor and
> device strings in sysfs.
> 
> At present, the PCI "name" attribute has a length restriction
> (DEVICE_NAME_SIZE) within which it tries to accomodate the vendor
> and device strings, leading to, in most cases, truncation of one
> or both strings.
> 
> This patch alleviates the issue by creating the vendor_name and
> device_name attributes for PCI devices.

I agree with Pat, this should be done in userspace.

We should really just get rid of the dev->name file all together to keep
people from relying on it :)

thanks,

greg k-h

      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-18  2:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-17 10:11 [PATCH] PCI vendor and device strings in sysfs Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2003-07-17 14:55 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-07-18  2:35 ` Greg KH [this message]

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