Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> 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?
>
driver core guys are enforcing to use dev_name(device) instead of referring it.
for pci code:
via acpi_pci_root_driver.ops.add (aka acpi_pci_root_add) ==> pci_acpi_scan_root is used to scan pci bus/device, and at the same we read the resource for pci_dev at this point still need to use bus->devices to go over all pci_devices if needed.
in the pci_read_bases, we have res->name = pci_name(pci_dev); pci_name is calling dev_name.
later via acpi_pci_root_driver.ops.start (aka acpi_pci_root_start) ==> pci_bus_add_device to add all pci_dev in kobj tree.
pci_bus_add_device will call device_add.
actually in device_add
/* first, register with generic layer. */
error = kobject_add(&dev->kobj, dev->kobj.parent, "%s", dev_name(dev));
if (error)
goto Error;
will get one new name for that kobj, old name is freed.
Will try to make kobject_add more smart to reuse the old one.
YH
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