On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Dave Young wrote:
> Hi,
> Does the KOBJ_NAME_LEN really means the limit of kobject name length? seems not . And if it's true, is the KOBJ_NAME_LEN of 20 enough to use?
>
> In the kobject_set_name, the limit is 1024. Looks like either the comment or the code should be updated.
>
> /**
> * kobject_set_name - Set the name of an object
> * @kobj: object.
> * @fmt: format string used to build the name
> *
> * If strlen(name) >= KOBJ_NAME_LEN, then use a dynamically allocated
> * string that @kobj->k_name points to. Otherwise, use the static
> * @kobj->name array.
> */
the comment seems fairly clear -- if the name is sufficiently short,
it's stored in the static array. if not, then it's stored in
dynamically allocated space.
rday
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