Re: [PATCH] block: Fix register_disk() when name has '/' in it

Roland Dreier
2009-01-10T06:11:44Z

> > Commit 3ada8b7e ("block: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(),
> > dev_set_name()") deleted the code in register_disk() that changed a '/'
> > to a '!' in the device name when registering a disk.
>
> Hmm, this is done in the core, for all devices since a while:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9f255651fb41c111ee35a2ae632df8ce9bd61def
>
> We should find what is going wrong here, instead of putting that code back.

The commit you point to is for kobject_set_name() ... but dev_set_name()
is still just setting dev->bus_id (at least in Linus's current tree).

If you want I can send a patch putting the conversion into
dev_set_name() for now instead.

- R.