linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: audio: Rename cport with intf

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Date:   Mon, 17 Oct 2016 17:31:25 +0200
From:   Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
To:     Pankaj Bharadiya <pankaj.bharadiya@...il.com>
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, vaibhav.sr@...il.com,
        mgreer@...malcreek.com, johan@...nel.org, elder@...nel.org,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: audio: Rename cport with intf_id

On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 03:29:14PM +0530, Pankaj Bharadiya wrote:
> gb_audio_manager_module_descriptor's cport field is actually used to
> manage and pass interface id to user space.
> 
> Thus rename gb_audio_manager_module_descriptor's 'cport' field and
> few other things to avoid confusion.

Please be more specific about what these other things are; in this case
sysfs attributes, uevent vars, and an odd-looking sysfs-string
interface (more?).

Wouldn't this change break any current user-space implementation?

Also why aren't any of these attributes documented as they should be?

Thanks,
Johan