Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:35:52 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] PCI vendor and device strings in sysfs |
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 03:41:24PM +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote: > Hi, > > Here is a patch against 2.6.0-test1 to display PCI vendor and > device strings in sysfs. > > At present, the PCI "name" attribute has a length restriction > (DEVICE_NAME_SIZE) within which it tries to accomodate the vendor > and device strings, leading to, in most cases, truncation of one > or both strings. > > This patch alleviates the issue by creating the vendor_name and > device_name attributes for PCI devices.
I agree with Pat, this should be done in userspace.
We should really just get rid of the dev->name file all together to keep people from relying on it :)
thanks,
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