From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
Cc: Matt Tolentino <metolent@snoqualmie.dp.intel.com>,
davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
Matt_Domsch@Dell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] efivars update
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 03:08:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030830020841.GD13467@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0308291448340.944-100000@localhost.localdomain>
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 02:59:43PM -0700, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> 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?
I thoroughly approve of kobject_name() though -- hide the implementation.
--
"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies.
Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-30 2:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-29 21:24 Matt Tolentino
2003-08-29 21:59 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-08-30 2:08 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2003-09-02 16:17 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-08-29 22:17 ` Matt Domsch
2003-08-30 0:16 Tolentino, Matthew E
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