linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kernel/params.c: fix the module name length in param_sysfs

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Date:	Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:13:37 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
cc:	Denis Cheng <crquan@...il.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/params.c: fix the module name length in
 param_sysfs_builtin


On Jan 21 2008 22:16, Rusty Russell wrote:
>On Monday 21 January 2008 20:08:25 Denis Cheng wrote:
>> the original code use KOBJ_NAME_LEN for built-in module name length,
>> that's defined to 20 in linux/kobject.h, but this is not enough appearntly,
>> many module names are longer than this;
>>  #define KOBJ_NAME_LEN                   20
>
>Thanks, applied.  I was surprisedto learn that we have a 35-char source 
>filename in the kernel.
>
>And congratulations to nf_conntrack_l3proto_ipv4_compat.c!

But nf..dada_compat.c gets linked into nf_conntrack_ipv4.ko,
and that is what is used in /sys/module - and it fits the 20.
Any place where nf_conntrack_l3proto_ipv4_compat would still be used?
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