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

Rusty Russell
2008-11-06T03:45:29Z

On Friday 31 October 2008 06:10:22 Kay Sievers wrote:
> This patch is part of a larger patch series which will remove
> the "char bus_id[20]" name string from struct device. The device
> name is managed in the kobject anyway, and without any size
> limitation, and just needlessly copied into "struct device".

OK, I've applied this patch.

I'm curious how you're going to handle out-of-memory conditions?

Thanks,
Rusty.