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kobject: replace '/' with '!' in name

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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>
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Kay Sievers 2008-05-06 22:24:04 +02:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent e105b8bfc7
commit 9f255651fb
1 changed files with 8 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -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;
}