From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: edac driver names in sysfs.
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 11:49:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060523184924.GB29044@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060522022912.GS8250@redhat.com>
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 10:29:12PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> EDAC does something funky that no other afaik seems to do.
>
> #define edac_xstr(s) edac_str(s)
> #define edac_str(s) #s
> #define EDAC_MOD_STR edac_xstr(KBUILD_BASENAME)
>
> And then..
>
> .name = EDAC_MOD_STR,
>
> in its pci_driver structs.
> This leads to it looking a bit 'odd' in /sys/bus/pci/drivers
> compared to the others.
>
> /sys/bus/pci/drivers/\"e752x_edac\"/
>
> Is correcting this to remove the quotes likely to break anything
> in userspace ?
In the /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ directory? No, it should be fixed. Driver
names shouldn't have quotes or spaces or / in them. I've fixed up
almost all of the space issues, but they seem to keep cropping up every
once in a while (an example of this is the name "Intel ICH" which should
be fixed up...
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-23 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-22 2:29 Dave Jones
2006-05-22 5:44 ` Keith Owens
2006-05-23 18:49 ` Greg KH [this message]
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