Re: [RFC][PATCH v2] configfs: Provide variants of config_*_init_type_name() that report errors

[Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 05:04:11PM +0200, Louis Rilling wrote:
>  void config_item_init_type_name(struct config_item *item,
>  				const char *name,
>  				struct config_item_type *type)
>  {
> -	config_item_set_name(item, name);
> -	item->ci_type = type;
> -	config_item_init(item);
> +	int error;
> +
> +	error = config_item_init_type_long_name(item, name, type);
> +	BUG_ON(error);
>  }

	This needs to BUG_ON(strlen(name) >= CONIFG_ITEM_NAME_LEN) at
the top.  We don't want to allow an invalid construct just because
memory happened to be available :-)
	Also, update Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt.

Joel

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