Re: [PATCH v4] driver core: Fix device link device name collision

[Michael Walle]

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@xxxxxxxx/
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 287905e68dd2 ("driver core: Expose device link details in 
> sysfs")
> Reported-by: Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Greg, any news here?

-michael