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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

  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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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