Commit 7143f7a1 authored Jan 09, 2009 by Roland Dreier Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman Jan 20, 2009

driver core: Convert '/' to '!' in dev_set_name()



Commit 3ada8b7e ("block: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(),
dev_set_name()") deleted the code in register_disk() that changed a '/'
to a '!' in the device name when registering a disk, but dev_set_name()
does not perform this conversion.

This leads to amusing problems with disks that have '/' in their names:
for example a failure to boot with the root partition on a cciss device,
even though the kernel says it knows about the root device:

    VFS: Cannot open root device "cciss/c0d0p6" or unknown-block(0,0)
    Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
    6800        71652960 cciss/c0d0 driver: cciss
      6802               1 cciss/c0d0p2
      6805         2931831 cciss/c0d0p5
      6806        34354908 cciss/c0d0p6
    6810        71652960 cciss/c0d1 driver: cciss

Fix this by adding code to change '/' to '!' in dev_set_name() to handle
this until dev_set_name() is converted to use kobject_set_name().

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

parent f3b8436a

drivers/base/core.c

+6 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -777,10 +777,16 @@ static void device_remove_class_symlinks(struct device *dev)
		int dev_set_name(struct device dev, const char fmt, ...)
		{
		va_list vargs;
		char *s;

		va_start(vargs, fmt);
		vsnprintf(dev->bus_id, sizeof(dev->bus_id), fmt, vargs);
		va_end(vargs);

		/* ewww... some of these buggers have / in the name... */
		while ((s = strchr(dev->bus_id, '/')))
		*s = '!';

		return 0;
		}
		EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dev_set_name);

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