linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 12/15] vmbus: make sysfs names consistent with PCI

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Date:   Mon, 31 Oct 2016 15:04:25 +0000
From:   KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "devel@...uxdriverproject.org" <devel@...uxdriverproject.org>,
        "olaf@...fle.de" <olaf@...fle.de>,
        "apw@...onical.com" <apw@...onical.com>,
        "vkuznets@...hat.com" <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        "jasowang@...hat.com" <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        "leann.ogasawara@...onical.com" <leann.ogasawara@...onical.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 12/15] vmbus: make sysfs names consistent with PCI



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@...uxfoundation.org]
> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2016 5:44 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; devel@...uxdriverproject.org;
> olaf@...fle.de; apw@...onical.com; vkuznets@...hat.com;
> jasowang@...hat.com; leann.ogasawara@...onical.com; Stephen
> Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/15] vmbus: make sysfs names consistent with PCI
> 
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 12:41:47AM -0700, kys@...hange.microsoft.com
> wrote:
> > From: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>
> >
> > In commit 9a56e5d6a0ba ("Drivers: hv: make VMBus bus ids persistent")
> > the name of vmbus devices in sysfs changed to be (in 4.9-rc1):
> >   /sys/bus/vmbus/vmbus-6aebe374-9ba0-11e6-933c-00259086b36b
> >
> > The prefix ("vmbus-") is redundant and differs from how PCI is
> > represented in sysfs. Therefore simplify to:
> >   /sys/bus/vmbus/6aebe374-9ba0-11e6-933c-00259086b36b
> >
> > Please merge this before 4.9 is released and the old format
> > has to live forever.
> 
> Why have you included this in a patchset that will not get merged until
> 4.10-rc1???
> 
> You want this in 4.9, right?
> 
> confused,

Sorry about that; I will send this separately.

K. Y
> 
> greg k-h