linux-kernel - Re: virtio: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set

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Date:	Thu, 6 Nov 2008 22:18:36 +1100
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	"Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	"linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Greg KH" <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: virtio: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()

On Thursday 06 November 2008 17:28:56 Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 04:45, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote:
> > I'm curious how you're going to handle out-of-memory conditions?
>
> If the name can't be set, the following call to device_register() will
> fail, and should be handled by the caller. Just like today when we
> allocate the kobject name in device_register(). After the core has
> switched over, the name allocation will only happen a few lines
> earlier, it should not behave different otherwise. Is that what you
> mean?

Yep, thanks.  Sounds fine.

Rusty.
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