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Kay Sievers 90f671301a parisc: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
(I did not compile or test it, please let me know, or help fixing
 it, if something is wrong with the conversion)

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".

To set and read the device name dev_name(dev) and dev_set_name(dev)
must be used. If your code uses static kobjects, which it shouldn't
do, "const char *init_name" can be used to statically provide the
name the registered device should have. At registration time, the
init_name field is cleared, to enforce the use of dev_name(dev) to
access the device name at a later time.

We need to get rid of all occurrences of bus_id in the entire tree
to be able to enable the new interface. Please apply this patch,
and possibly convert any remaining remaining occurrences of bus_id.

We want to submit a patch to -next, which will remove bus_id from
"struct device", to find the remaining pieces to convert, and finally
switch over to the new api, which will remove the 20 bytes array
and does no longer have a size limitation.

Thanks,
Kay

Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
2008-11-26 22:22:41 +00:00
..
configs [PARISC] move defconfig to arch/parisc/configs/ 2008-03-15 19:12:08 -07:00
hpux [PATCH] prepare vfs_readdir() callers to returning filldir result 2008-10-23 05:13:10 -04:00
include/asm parisc: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() 2008-11-26 22:22:41 +00:00
kernel parisc: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() 2008-11-26 22:22:41 +00:00
lib Revert "parisc: fix trivial section name warnings" 2008-06-13 10:49:45 -04:00
math-emu kbuild: fix up CFLAGS usage 2007-10-14 21:49:42 +02:00
mm mm: drop unneeded pgdat argument from free_area_init_node() 2008-07-24 10:47:16 -07:00
oprofile oprofile: more whitespace fixes 2008-10-15 20:55:51 +02:00
defpalo.conf Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
install.sh Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
Kconfig Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6 2008-10-20 14:40:31 -07:00
Kconfig.debug alpha/parisc: remove config variable DEBUG_RWLOCK 2008-02-06 10:41:03 -08:00
Makefile [PARISC] move defconfig to arch/parisc/configs/ 2008-03-15 19:12:08 -07:00
nm Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00