Re: [PATCHv1 01/19] kobject: increase allowed number of uevent variables

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu May 14 2020 - 02:11:25 EST


On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 08:55:57PM +0200, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> SBS battery driver exposes 32 power supply properties now,
> which will result in uevent failure on (un)plugging the
> battery. Other drivers (e.g. bq27xxx) are also coming close
> to this limit, so increase it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/kobject.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/kobject.h b/include/linux/kobject.h
> index e2ca0a292e21..75e822569e39 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kobject.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kobject.h
> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
> #include <linux/uidgid.h>
>
> #define UEVENT_HELPER_PATH_LEN 256
> -#define UEVENT_NUM_ENVP 32 /* number of env pointers */
> +#define UEVENT_NUM_ENVP 64 /* number of env pointers */
> #define UEVENT_BUFFER_SIZE 2048 /* buffer for the variables */
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>