Re: [PATCH] pci: keep pci device resource name pointer right.

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> it turns that we need to reget res->name because dev->dev.kobj name is changed
> after device_add.

Can we not make the rule be that the name should just be set before?

IOW, there is something else broken, I think. Rather than put this ugly 
band-aid, why now make sure that whoever had that broken name fixes it?

		Linus
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