From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Platform device matching, & weird strncmp usage
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:53:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060106185352.GG16093@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1136527179.4840.120.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 04:59:39PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> static int platform_match(struct device * dev, struct device_driver * drv)
> {
> struct platform_device *pdev = container_of(dev, struct platform_device, dev);
>
> return (strncmp(pdev->name, drv->name, BUS_ID_SIZE) == 0);
> }
>
> As far as I know, strncmp() is _NOT_ supposed to return 0 if one string
> is shorter than the other and they match until that point. Thus the
> above will never match unless the <name> portion of pdev->name is
> exactly of size BUS_ID_SIZE which is obviously not the case...
pdev->name is just the <name> part - it's pdev->dev.name which has
both the <name> and <instance>. I think the strncmp is unnecessary,
and it can be replaced by a plain strcmp.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-06 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-06 5:59 Platform device matching, & weird strncmp usage Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-01-06 6:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-01-06 18:53 ` Russell King [this message]
2006-01-06 21:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-01-07 19:24 ` Kurtis D. Rader
2006-01-07 19:42 ` Bob Copeland
2006-01-07 22:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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