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Commit 9f255651 authored by Kay Sievers's avatar Kay Sievers Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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kobject: replace '/' with '!' in name 



Some (block) devices have a '/' in the name, and need special
handling. Let's have that rule to the core, so we can remove it
from the block class.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent e105b8bf

lib/kobject.c

+8 −2
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@@ -216,13 +216,19 @@ static int kobject_add_internal(struct kobject *kobj) 
static int kobject_set_name_vargs(struct kobject *kobj, const char *fmt,

				  va_list vargs)

{

	/* Free the old name, if necessary. */

	kfree(kobj->name);

	const char *old_name = kobj->name;

	char *s;



	kobj->name = kvasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, fmt, vargs);

	if (!kobj->name)

		return -ENOMEM;



	/* ewww... some of these buggers have '/' in the name ... */

	s = strchr(kobj->name, '/');

	if (s)

		s[0] = '!';



	kfree(old_name);

	return 0;

}