linux-kernel - kobject_set_name() uses GFP

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Date:	Tue, 05 May 2009 09:21:42 -0700
From:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: kobject_set_name() uses GFP_KERNEL

Hi Kay,

all the users of kobject_set_name() which includes dev_set_name() are
allocating their memory for the device name with GFP_KERNEL. It is not a
big deal since device_add() does the same. However it is not obvious and
I ran into an issue in the Bluetooth stack where I was setting the
device name from a context that can't sleep. If this behavior is on
purpose, we better add an extra comment in the documentation.

Regards

Marcel

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