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From: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Cc: Android Kernel" <kernel-team@android.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] driver core: Change delimiter in devlink device's name to "--"
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 15:09:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGETcx8FoSVwneZNEAeqpAfs8OkeMzbCBWYMSkJbQYE5DLHing@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJZ5v0izVrJeQNroeNS8xu66c8LskHSiCJRQvVvrhWSZV8tL_g@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 7:21 AM Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 8:05 PM Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > The devlink device name is of the form "supplier:consumer". But ":" is
> > fairly common in device names and makes it visually hard to distinguish
> > supplier and consumer. So, replace it with "--" to make it easier.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
>
> Well, this makes sense in principle, but I wonder how much risk of
> breaking anything in user space there is?

The original patch got in only a week or two before this patch. So I
don't think there's any real risk of breaking user space here. Also,
it hasn't been part of any kernel release version yet. So I think we
are safe.

Also, Greg already took it.

-Saravana

      reply	other threads:[~2020-07-27 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-24 18:05 [PATCH v1] driver core: Change delimiter in devlink device's name to "--" Saravana Kannan
2020-07-27 14:21 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-07-27 22:09   ` Saravana Kannan [this message]

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