Messages in this thread | | | From | Saravana Kannan <> | Date | Mon, 27 Jul 2020 15:09:22 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1] driver core: Change delimiter in devlink device's name to "--" |
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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
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