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| author | Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> | 2008-05-06 22:24:04 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2008-07-21 21:54:40 -0700 |
| commit | 9f255651fb41c111ee35a2ae632df8ce9bd61def (patch) | |
| tree | 5afdfe266762182adc210ee5f73176dd6078e7e0 | |
| parent | e105b8bfc769b0545b6f0f395179d1e43cbee822 (diff) | |
kobject: replace '/' with '!' in name
Some (block) devices have a '/' in the name, and need special
handling. Let's have that rule to the core, so we can remove it
from the block class.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/kobject.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c index dcade0543bd..744401571ed 100644 --- a/lib/kobject.c +++ b/lib/kobject.c @@ -216,13 +216,19 @@ static int kobject_add_internal(struct kobject *kobj) static int kobject_set_name_vargs(struct kobject *kobj, const char *fmt, va_list vargs) { - /* Free the old name, if necessary. */ - kfree(kobj->name); + const char *old_name = kobj->name; + char *s; kobj->name = kvasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, fmt, vargs); if (!kobj->name) return -ENOMEM; + /* ewww... some of these buggers have '/' in the name ... */ + s = strchr(kobj->name, '/'); + if (s) + s[0] = '!'; + + kfree(old_name); return 0; } |