Re: [PATCH] Driver Core patches for 2.6.9

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 10:20:37PM +0200, Kronos wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
> > ChangeSet 1.1867.3.4, 2004/09/15 11:36:09-07:00, greg@xxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > kevent: standardize on the event types
> > 
> > This prevents any potential typos from happening.
> 
> [cut]
> 
> > diff -Nru a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
> > --- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c      2004-10-19 09:22:44 -07:00
> > +++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c      2004-10-19 09:22:44 -07:00
> > @@ -19,9 +19,29 @@
> > #include <linux/skbuff.h>
> > #include <linux/netlink.h>
> > #include <linux/string.h>
> > +#include <linux/kobject_uevent.h>
> > #include <linux/kobject.h>
> > #include <net/sock.h>
> > 
> > +/* 
> > + * These must match up with the values for enum kobject_action
> > + * as found in include/linux/kobject_uevent.h
> > + */
> > +static char *actions[] = {
> > +       "add",          /* 0x00 */
> > +       "remove",       /* 0x01 */
> > +       "change",       /* 0x02 */
> > +       "mount",        /* 0x03 */
> > +};
> 
> Hi Greg,
> maybe it's just a matter of taste but I think that is better to do
> something like this:
> 
> static char *actions[] = {
>         [KOBJ_ADD]      = "add",
>         [KOBJ_REMOVE]   = "remove",
>         [KOBJ_CHANGE]   = "change",
>         [KOBJ_MOUNT]    = "mount",
> };
> 
> This would prevent the insertion of a new action in the wrong place.

See the following patches in the series, which fixes this up :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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