Re: [PATCH] don't allow / in class device names

[Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:45:55PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > No, the "fix" is to just not do this in the driver.  I'm not going to
> > apply this patch, sorry.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> 
> Bah, kernel API's should check there arguments.  One of my peeve's about 
> sysfs is
> that it is far too lazy about checking it's inputs.  Especially, when the 
> restrictions
> are not well documented, the code needs to validate.

But isn't a '/' character a valid character for a file or directory
name?  :) 

Yeah, it's pathalogical, but why burden the core from something that is
instantly obvious to the developer as a "wrong" thing to do?

It's much easier to see, "Oh, my driver created a stupid directory name
because of the string I told it to use", than "why in the world is the
driver core rejecting my register call when I _know_ it's a correct
structure".

thanks,

greg k-h