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authorBenjamin Fair <benjaminfair@google.com>2018-07-06 11:16:03 -0700
committerCorey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>2018-08-30 14:55:18 -0500
commitcd2315d471f45a36cb1329722920d89cd6d3d11f (patch)
tree01a8204caf58c38a21784775969309a3850948a7 /drivers/char
parentMerge tag 'mtd/for-4.19-rc2' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd (diff)
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ipmi: kcs_bmc: don't change device name
kcs_bmc_alloc(...) calls dev_set_name(...) which is incorrect as most bus driver frameworks, platform_driver in particular, assume that they are able to set the device name themselves. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Fair <benjaminfair@google.com> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc.c
index bb882ab161fe..e6124bd548df 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/kcs_bmc.c
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
#include "kcs_bmc.h"
+#define DEVICE_NAME "ipmi-kcs"
+
#define KCS_MSG_BUFSIZ 1000
#define KCS_ZERO_DATA 0
@@ -429,8 +431,6 @@ struct kcs_bmc *kcs_bmc_alloc(struct device *dev, int sizeof_priv, u32 channel)
if (!kcs_bmc)
return NULL;
- dev_set_name(dev, "ipmi-kcs%u", channel);
-
spin_lock_init(&kcs_bmc->lock);
kcs_bmc->channel = channel;
@@ -444,7 +444,8 @@ struct kcs_bmc *kcs_bmc_alloc(struct device *dev, int sizeof_priv, u32 channel)
return NULL;
kcs_bmc->miscdev.minor = MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR;
- kcs_bmc->miscdev.name = dev_name(dev);
+ kcs_bmc->miscdev.name = devm_kasprintf(dev, GFP_KERNEL, "%s%u",
+ DEVICE_NAME, channel);
kcs_bmc->miscdev.fops = &kcs_bmc_fops;
return kcs_bmc;