From: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
To: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@android.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] driver core: Fix device link device name collision
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 20:01:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10c82099cb39f176dde96c16d9cc6100@walle.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210110175408.1465657-1-saravanak@google.com>
Hi,
Am 2021-01-10 18:54, schrieb Saravana Kannan:
> The device link device's name was of the form:
> <supplier-dev-name>--<consumer-dev-name>
>
> This can cause name collision as reported here [1] as device names are
> not globally unique. Since device names have to be unique within the
> bus/class, add the bus/class name as a prefix to the device names used
> to
> construct the device link device name.
>
> So the devuce link device's name will be of the form:
> <supplier-bus-name>:<supplier-dev-name>--<consumer-bus-name>:<consumer-dev-name>
>
> [1] -
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201229033440.32142-1-michael@walle.cc/
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 287905e68dd2 ("driver core: Expose device link details in
> sysfs")
> Reported-by: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
> Tested-by: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
> Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
> ---
Greg, any news here?
-michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-21 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-10 17:54 [PATCH v4] driver core: Fix device link device name collision Saravana Kannan
2021-01-21 19:01 ` Michael Walle [this message]
2021-01-21 19:12 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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2021-01-09 22:45 Saravana Kannan
2021-01-10 1:52 ` Michael Walle
2021-01-10 8:32 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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