Re: [PATCH printk 2/3] printk: move dictionary keys to dev_printk_info

From: Rasmus Villemoes
Date: Fri Sep 18 2020 - 02:16:42 EST


On 17/09/2020 15.16, John Ogness wrote:

> if (dev->class)
> subsys = dev->class->name;
> else if (dev->bus)
> subsys = dev->bus->name;
> else
> - return 0;
> + return;
>
> - pos += snprintf(hdr + pos, hdrlen - pos, "SUBSYSTEM=%s", subsys);
> - if (pos >= hdrlen)
> - goto overflow;
> + snprintf(dev_info->subsystem, sizeof(dev_info->subsystem), subsys);

It's unlikely that subsys would contain a %, but this will be yet
another place to spend brain cycles ignoring if doing static analysis.
So can we not do this. Either of strXcpy() for X=s,l will do the same
thing, and likely faster.

Rasmus