linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/7] usb: core: reuse kbasename()

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Date:	Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:42:35 +0300
From:	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] usb: core: reuse kbasename()

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 11:27:27AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Andy Shevchenko
>> <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> > --- a/drivers/usb/core/file.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/usb/core/file.c
>>
>> > @@ -200,14 +200,9 @@ int usb_register_dev(struct usb_interface *intf,
>> >
>> >         /* create a usb class device for this usb interface */
>> >         snprintf(name, sizeof(name), class_driver->name, minor - minor_base);
>> > -       temp = strrchr(name, '/');
>> > -       if (temp && (temp[1] != '\0'))
>> I have checked current linux-next, the drivers define .name in the
>> usb_class_driver structure as '...%d'.
>> So, what is the reason to check for trailing '/' here? Historical
>> reasons or there is a (broken/3rd party/etc) driver with it?
>
> I really do not remember why it was done this way, sorry.  I have no
> problem not doing it anymore, as long as you are willing to fix any
> potential bugs that might pop up :)

Hmm... this series about cleaning up. The bugs might pop up in the
drivers that still using something like '/foo/bar/' for their names
here.
Anyway, I tried to dig into history and only what I found is the patch
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel//people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.69/2.5.69-mm3/broken-out/linus.patch
that brings a piece of code. And it the same time it brings the same
piece to the tty layer. I suspect that this piece was copied and
pasted in few place.

Currently the device_create() call uses the name parameter as a
parameter of kobject. But kobject doesn't accept '/' in the names, it
changes it to '!'.
So, I think the way of treating a trailing slash in the usb code is redundant.

> And no, I don't worry about 3rd party drivers, that shouldn't be an
> issue at all here.

Fair enough


-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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