linux-kernel - Re: sysfs filenames with spaces

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Date:   Tue, 13 Oct 2020 12:48:49 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sysfs filenames with spaces

On Tue, 2020-10-13 at 19:17 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Mon 2020-10-05 19:41:15, Joe Perches wrote:
> > This doesn't seem like a great idea to me.
> > 
> > For my system I've got:
> > 
> > /sys/devices/platform/Fixed MDIO bus.0/
> > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/int3401 thermal/
> > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/int3403 thermal/
> > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/int3400 thermal/
> > /sys/bus/mdio_bus/drivers/Generic PHY/
> > /sys/bus/mdio_bus/drivers/Generic Clause 45 PHY/
> > /sys/bus/pnp/drivers/i8042 aux/
> > /sys/bus/pnp/drivers/i8042 kbd/
> > /sys/bus/i2c/drivers/CHT Whiskey Cove PMIC/
> > 
> > Could these filenames be avoided in the future or
> > even renamed today?
> 
> Does not look like great idea to me, either. Hmm. Is there filename
> with "/" in it? :-)
> 
> But I guess you'd need to cc relevant maintainers and that this is
> going to be a bit of whack-a-mole.

An option might be to convert any invalid filename
via an alloc and substitution in sysfs_add_file
and similar free in sysfs_remove_file.

Emitting a logging message describing any new name
would be useful too.