netdev - [PATCH 1/6]: net: Remove bogus reference to BUS_ID

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Date:	Tue, 26 May 2009 21:39:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
CC:	kay.sievers@...y.org, greg@...ah.com
Subject: [PATCH 1/6]: net: Remove bogus reference to BUS_ID_SIZE in sysfs
 code.

BUS_ID_SIZE is really no more, and device names are dynamically
allocated and thus can be any necessary size.

So remove the BUG check here making sure BUS_ID_SIZE is at least
as large as IFNAMSIZ.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
---
 net/core/net-sysfs.c |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
index b9641e8..3994680 100644
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -499,7 +499,6 @@ int netdev_register_kobject(struct net_device *net)
 	dev->platform_data = net;
 	dev->groups = groups;

-	BUILD_BUG_ON(BUS_ID_SIZE < IFNAMSIZ);
 	dev_set_name(dev, "%s", net->name);

 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
-- 
1.6.3

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