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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The use of KOBJ_NAME_LEN
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 00:20:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071204082027.GA3014@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a8e1da0712032353m1a705ec6ged4d503818ad8f58@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:53:15PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> On Dec 4, 2007 3:46 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 02:45:47PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > Does the KOBJ_NAME_LEN really means the limit of kobject name length? seems
> > > not . And if it's true, is the KOBJ_NAME_LEN of 20 enough to use?
> >
> > No, not anymore, the kobject name is totally dynamic.
> 
> Eh, Why does this macro still exist? If KOBJ_NAME_LEN is really
> needed, maybe it should be renamed to something else to avoid
> misleading.

Right now other .h files use it also.  It isn't hurting anything for
now, and Kay has some patches he is working on to get rid of the static
bus_id array, which will then let us get rid of that define entirely.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-04  8:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-04  6:45 The use of KOBJ_NAME_LEN Dave Young
2007-12-04  6:50 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-12-04  7:17   ` Dave Young
2007-12-04  7:46   ` Greg KH
2007-12-04  8:02     ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-12-04  7:46 ` Greg KH
2007-12-04  7:53   ` Dave Young
2007-12-04  8:20     ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-12-04  8:22       ` Dave Young

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