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

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Date:	Thu, 6 Nov 2008 14:45:11 +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 Friday 31 October 2008 06:10:22 Kay Sievers wrote:
> This patch is part of a larger patch series which will remove
> the "char bus_id[20]" name string from struct device. The device
> name is managed in the kobject anyway, and without any size
> limitation, and just needlessly copied into "struct device".

OK, I've applied this patch.

I'm curious how you're going to handle out-of-memory conditions?

Thanks,
Rusty.
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