On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:36:03AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Actually, I think we should do the reverse (for testing), and make the
> name be something small like 8 bytes, and make sure that everybody who
> writes the name uses strncpy() and snprintf() instead of just blindly
> writing whatever is in the database.
>
> Otherwise we'll always end up having fragile magic constants.
>
> Anybody willing to do that cleanup?
Sure, I can do that. That leads me to think that maybe we should
delete name from struct device and just use the one in struct kobject
(which is already a mere 16 bytes). But if we're going to go as far
down as the kobject... that has a dentry. And dentrys have names.
So how about eliminating that too and just creating a dentry with the
almost infinitely long name?
Maybe that's too much at this stage of the game.
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