linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pci: keep pci device resource name pointer right.

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904181141100.4042@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:42:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
cc:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: keep pci device resource name pointer right.



On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> it turns that we need to reget res->name because dev->dev.kobj name is changed
> after device_add.

Can we not make the rule be that the name should just be set before?

IOW, there is something else broken, I think. Rather than put this ugly 
band-aid, why now make sure that whoever had that broken name fixes it?

		Linus
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