linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] misc/genalloc: Name subpools by of_node_full

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Message-ID: <2023071603-trifocals-muppet-6906@gregkh>
Date:   Sun, 16 Jul 2023 10:13:20 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] misc/genalloc: Name subpools by of_node_full_name()

On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 09:44:39AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> Greg, could you apply this patch for fixes?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 9:45 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org> wrote:
> 
> > A previous commit tried to come up with more generic subpool
> > names, but this isn't quite working: the node name was used
> > elsewhere to match pools to consumers which regressed the
> > nVidia Tegra 2/3 video decoder.
> >
> > Revert back to an earlier approach using of_node_full_name()
> > instead of just the name to make sure the pool name is more
> > unique, and change both sites using this in the kernel.
> >
> > It is not perfect since two SRAM nodes could have the same
> > subpool name but it makes the situation better than before.
> >
> > Reported-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>
> > Fixes: 21e5a2d10c8f ("misc: sram: Generate unique names for subpools")
> > Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Let me catch up with emails over the next week or so, I'll queue it up
then, thanks.

greg k-h