linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] PCI: fix name of 'enable' sysfs file

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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.00.1410301749560.11562@twin.jikos.cz>
Date:	Thu, 30 Oct 2014 17:50:41 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
cc:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Jeff Epler <jepler@...ythonic.net>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: fix name of 'enable' sysfs file

On Thu, 30 Oct 2014, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> 
> Back in commit 5136b2da770d ("PCI: convert bus code to use dev_groups"),
> I misstyped the 'enable' sysfs file as 'enabled', which broke the
> userspace api.  This patch fixes that issue by renaming the file back.

But this is in turn 3.13 -> 3.18 userspace interface breakage ... I don't 
think there is other graceful way out of this than creating a symlink so 
that both variants work, right?

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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