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

[Emil Velikov]

On 2020/05/13, 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 */

To be on the safe side I've checked systemd/udev. It's using ordered hashmap,
so it's perfectly capable of handling the extra entries.

Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

-Emil