Re: [PATCH] Make KOBJ_NAME_LEN match BUS_ID_SIZE

Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Tue, 13 May 2003 08:10:32 +0100


On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 02:26:40AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> This was causing me all sorts of problems with linux1394's 16-18 byte
> long bus_id lengths. The sysfs names were all broken.
>
> This not only makes KOBJ_NAME_LEN match BUS_ID_SIZE, but fixes the
> strncpy's in drivers/base/ so that it can't happen again (atleast the
> strings will be null terminated).

What about defining BUS_ID_SIZE in terms of KOBJ_NAME_LEN?

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