Re: edac driver names in sysfs.

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 10:29:12PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> EDAC does something funky that no other afaik seems to do.
> 
> #define edac_xstr(s) edac_str(s)
> #define edac_str(s) #s
> #define EDAC_MOD_STR edac_xstr(KBUILD_BASENAME)
> 
> And then..
> 
> 	.name = EDAC_MOD_STR,
> 
> in its pci_driver structs.
> This leads to it looking a bit 'odd' in /sys/bus/pci/drivers
> compared to the others.
> 
> /sys/bus/pci/drivers/\"e752x_edac\"/
> 
> Is correcting this to remove the quotes likely to break anything
> in userspace ?

In the /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ directory?  No, it should be fixed.  Driver
names shouldn't have quotes or spaces or / in them.  I've fixed up
almost all of the space issues, but they seem to keep cropping up every
once in a while (an example of this is the name "Intel ICH" which should
be fixed up...

thanks,

greg k-h
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