linux-kernel - Re: Fwd: sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename .../system76_acpi::kbd

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Message-ID: <20231121151549.GA173820@google.com>
Date:   Tue, 21 Nov 2023 15:15:49 +0000
From:   Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>
To:     Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@...mhuis.info>
Cc:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
        Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhiblot@...phandler.com>,
        Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Regressions <regressions@...ts.linux.dev>,
        Linux LEDs <linux-leds@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tim Crawford <tcrawford@...tem76.com>,
        Jeremy Soller <jeremy@...tem76.com>,
        System76 Product Development <productdev@...tem76.com>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        Johannes Penßel <johannes.penssel@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename
 .../system76_acpi::kbd_backlight/color

On Tue, 21 Nov 2023, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:

> Takashi, Jean-Jacques Hiblot, Lee,
> 
> On 20.11.23 14:53, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > On Mon, 06 Nov 2023 14:19:08 +0100,
> > Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> >> On Sat, Nov 04, 2023 at 01:01:56PM +0100, Jean-Jacques Hiblot wrote:
> >>> On 29/10/2023 02:48, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> >>>> On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 02:55:06PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> >>>>> The culprit seems to be commit c7d80059b086c4986cd994a1973ec7a5d75f8eea, which introduces a new 'color' attribute for led sysfs class devices. The problem is that the system76-acpi platform driver tries to create the exact same sysfs attribute itself for the system76_acpi::kbd_backlight device, leading to the conflict. For testing purposes, I've just rebuilt the kernel with the system76-apci color attribute renamed to kb_color, and that fixes the issue.
> >>>>
> >>>> Jean-Jacques Hiblot, would you like to take a look on this regression,
> >>>> since you authored the culprit?
> >
> >>> The offending commit stores the color in struct led_classdev and exposes it
> >>> via sysfs. It was part of a series that create a RGB leds from multiple
> >>> single-color LEDs. for this series, we need the color information but we
> >>> don't really need to expose it it via sysfs. In order to fix the issue, we
> >>> can remove the 'color' attribute from the sysfs.
> >>
> >> OK, see you in the patch!
> > 
> > Is there a patch available?
> 
> Not that I know of. Could not find anything on lore either.
> 
> > This bug hits for a few Logitech keyboard models, too, and it makes
> > 6.6 kernel unsable for them, as hid-lg-g15 driver probe fails due to
> > this bug:
> >   https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218155
> > 
> > We need a quick fix for 6.6.x.
> 
> Given that Jean-Jacques Hiblot (the author of the culprit) and Lee (who
> committed it and sent it to Linus) know about this for a while already
> without doing anything about it, I wonder if someone should just send a
> revert to Linus (unless of course that is likely to introduce a
> regression on its own).

You seem to have gone from DEFCON 4 to DEFCON 2 there.  The middle step
is to submit a patch to fix the issue and follow the usual patch flow.

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]