kobject: replace '/' with '!' in name
Some (block) devices have a '/' in the name, and need special
handling. Let's have that rule to the core, so we can remove it
from the block class.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index dcade05..7444015 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -216,13 +216,19 @@
static int kobject_set_name_vargs(struct kobject *kobj, const char *fmt,
va_list vargs)
{
- /* Free the old name, if necessary. */
- kfree(kobj->name);
+ const char *old_name = kobj->name;
+ char *s;
kobj->name = kvasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, fmt, vargs);
if (!kobj->name)
return -ENOMEM;
+ /* ewww... some of these buggers have '/' in the name ... */
+ s = strchr(kobj->name, '/');
+ if (s)
+ s[0] = '!';
+
+ kfree(old_name);
return 0;
}