Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 3 authors, 2011-09-02

Re: [PATCH] Staging: hv: vmbus: Show the modalias in /sys/bus/vmbus/devices/*/

From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Date: 2011-09-02 16:36:33
Also in: lkml

On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 06:25:56PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
Show a modalias file in /sys/bus/vmbus/devices/*/
Add a helper function to print the same content in modalias and uevent.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <redacted>
Nice idea, thanks for this, one minor nit below:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c |   21 ++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c
@@ -93,6 +93,14 @@ static void get_channel_info(struct hv_d
 		debug_info.outbound.bytes_avail_towrite;
 }
 
+#define VMBUS_ALIAS_LEN ((sizeof((struct hv_vmbus_device_id *)0)->guid) * 2)
+static void print_alias_name(struct hv_device *hv_dev, char *alias_name)
+{
+	int i;
+	for (i = 0; i < VMBUS_ALIAS_LEN; i += 2)
+		sprintf(&alias_name[i], "%02x", hv_dev->dev_type.b[i/2]);
+}
+
 /*
  * vmbus_show_device_attr - Show the device attribute in sysfs.
  *
@@ -105,6 +113,7 @@ static ssize_t vmbus_show_device_attr(st
 {
 	struct hv_device *hv_dev = device_to_hv_device(dev);
 	struct hv_device_info device_info;
+	char alias_name[VMBUS_ALIAS_LEN + 1];
Is that too big to put on the stack?  64 bytes, right?  Hm, maybe not.

Wait, hv_device_info is huge, that should be dynamic in the first place.
Olaf, not your issue, but KY, want to fix that up?

thanks,

greg k-h
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