Re: [PATCH] staging: comedi: replace slash in name

[Ian Abbott]

On 15/03/2021 10:44, Ian Abbott wrote:
> On 14/03/2021 03:57, Tong Zhang wrote:
>> request_irq() wont accept a name which contains slash so we need to
>> repalce it with something else -- otherwise it will trigger a warning
>> and the entry in /proc/irq/ will not be created
>>
>> [    1.565966] name 'pci-das6402/16'
>> [    1.566149] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 184 at fs/proc/generic.c:180 __xlate_proc_name+0x93/0xb0
>> [    1.568923] RIP: 0010:__xlate_proc_name+0x93/0xb0
>> [    1.574200] Call Trace:
>> [    1.574722]  proc_mkdir+0x18/0x20
>> [    1.576629]  request_threaded_irq+0xfe/0x160
>> [    1.576859]  auto_attach+0x60a/0xc40 [cb_pcidas64]
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tong Zhang <ztong0001@xxxxxxxxx>
[snip]
> Userspace applications can use these strings to determine the board
> type, so changing the strings would break those applications.
> 
> I suggest passing the comedi driver name "cb_pcidas" to request_irq()
> for now.

Oops, I meant "cb_pcidas64".  But you could reach that via
dev->driver->driver_name if you want (where dev is the struct
comedi_device * parameter).

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