> > That patch is below. I'll be sending it to Linus once he gets back from > > vacation, unless anyone has any serious objections to it. Note that it > > completely removes any limitation on the length of a kobject (and sysfs > > directory) name. > > Why keep another copy of the name? Why not use kobj->dentry->qstr->name? The problem is defining it. The dentry is not allocated until the kobject is registered, and we call through to sysfs. That's not so much a problem, but we'd have to pass the name along with the object down to sysfs in order to create the dentry, which would be a bit messy, IMO. Pat - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Tue Sep 2 13:05:12 2003
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