linux-kernel - [PATCHv1 01/19] kobject: increase allowed number of uevent variables

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Message-Id: <20200513185615.508236-2-sebastian.reichel@collabora.com>
Date:   Wed, 13 May 2020 20:55:57 +0200
From:   Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@...labora.com>
To:     Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...labora.com,
        Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@...labora.com>
Subject: [PATCHv1 01/19] kobject: increase allowed number of uevent variables

SBS battery driver exposes 32 power supply properties now,
which will result in uevent failure on (un)plugging the
battery. Other drivers (e.g. bq27xxx) are also coming close
to this limit, so increase it.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@...labora.com>
---
 include/linux/kobject.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kobject.h b/include/linux/kobject.h
index e2ca0a292e21..75e822569e39 100644
--- a/include/linux/kobject.h
+++ b/include/linux/kobject.h
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 #include <linux/uidgid.h>
 
 #define UEVENT_HELPER_PATH_LEN		256
-#define UEVENT_NUM_ENVP			32	/* number of env pointers */
+#define UEVENT_NUM_ENVP			64	/* number of env pointers */
 #define UEVENT_BUFFER_SIZE		2048	/* buffer for the variables */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER
-- 
2.26.2