[PATCH] clkdev: report over-sized strings when creating clkdev

[Russell King (Oracle)]

On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 01:16:06PM +0200, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote:
> On 27.05.24 12:45, Ron Economos wrote:
> > On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 03:09:14PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 11:47:55AM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> >> > Report an error when an attempt to register a clkdev entry results in a
> >> > truncated string so the problem can be easily spotted.
> >> >
> >> > Reported by: Duanqiang Wen <duanqiangwen at net-swift.com>
> >> > Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
> >> > Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at kernel.org>
> >>
> >> With this patch in the mainline kernel, I get
> >> [...]
> >> when trying to boot sifive_u in qemu.
> >>
> >> Apparently, "10000000.clock-controller" is too long. Any suggestion on
> >> how to solve the problem ? I guess using dev_name(dev) as dev_id
> > parameter
> >> for clk_hw_register_clkdev() is not or no longer a good idea.
> >> What else should be used instead ?
> > 
> > This issue causes a complete boot failure on real hardware (SiFive
> > Unmatched).
> 
> Hmmm. That and because nobody afaics has time/motivation to fix this
> anytime soon (or am I mistaken there?) makes me wonder if we should
> revert this change for now (and remerge it later once the problem this
> change exposed was fixed). Or is another solution in sight somewhere?

I'm sorry, but clearly I should tell my employer that I can't do work
for them because there's been a mainline kernel regression, and of
course I should be working on this bank holiday Monday...

No, please wait a bit longer.

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