Re: virtio: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()

Rusty Russell
2008-11-06T11:18:45Z

On Thursday 06 November 2008 17:28:56 Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 04:45, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> > I'm curious how you're going to handle out-of-memory conditions?
>
> If the name can't be set, the following call to device_register() will
> fail, and should be handled by the caller. Just like today when we
> allocate the kobject name in device_register(). After the core has
> switched over, the name allocation will only happen a few lines
> earlier, it should not behave different otherwise. Is that what you
> mean?

Yep, thanks. Sounds fine.

Rusty.