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Date:   Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:54:01 +0100
From:   Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>
To:     Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] nvmem: core: append offset to cell name in sysfs

Hi Miquel,

On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 05:45:06PM +0200, Miquel Raynal wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> daniel@...rotopia.org wrote on Tue, 18 Jul 2023 14:55:57 +0100:
> 
> > The device tree node names are not required to be unique. Append the
> > offset to the name to make cell nodes with identical names become
> > accessible via sysfs and avoid kernel stackdump caused by
> > sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '...'
> > 
> > Fixes: 757f8b3835c9 ("nvmem: core: Expose cells through sysfs")
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/nvmem/core.c | 4 +++-
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/core.c b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> > index 70e951088826d..90fe9dc30f8ba 100644
> > --- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> > +++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> > @@ -480,7 +480,9 @@ static int nvmem_populate_sysfs_cells(struct nvmem_device *nvmem)
> >  	/* Initialize each attribute to take the name and size of the cell */
> >  	list_for_each_entry(entry, &nvmem->cells, node) {
> >  		sysfs_bin_attr_init(&attrs[i]);
> > -		attrs[i].attr.name = devm_kstrdup(&nvmem->dev, entry->name, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +		attrs[i].attr.name = devm_kasprintf(&nvmem->dev, GFP_KERNEL,
> > +						    "%s@%d", entry->name,
> > +						    entry->offset);
> 
> Shouldn't we use %s@%x instead to match the DT descriptions?

True, I agree.

> 
> >  		attrs[i].attr.mode = 0444;
> >  		attrs[i].size = entry->bytes;
> >  		attrs[i].read = &nvmem_cell_attr_read;
> 
> I plan another version of the series which triggered these patches, if
> you don't mind I will squash patch 1 into my patches and pick this one
> as a preparation change (likely with the above fix if you agree and
> without the Fixes tag).

Yes, sure, please go ahead.


Cheers


Daniel

> 
> Thanks,
> Miquèl