linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] ptp: Add clock name to uevent

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Message-ID: <yt9dr08gfwtj.fsf@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 07:20:24 +0200
From: Sven Schnelle <svens@...ux.ibm.com>
To: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        Yangbo Lu
 <yangbo.lu@....com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] ptp: Add clock name to uevent

Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 02:43:28PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>  * @name:      A short "friendly name" to identify the clock and to
>>  *             help distinguish PHY based devices from MAC based ones.
>>  *             The string is not meant to be a unique id.
>> 
>> If the name is not unique, you probably should not be using it for
>> udev naming.
>
> +1
>
> Maybe the name is unique for s390, but it will not be in general.

As already written to Greg, i will drop this Patch. The name is unique,
i was just not aware that the clock_name attribute is present in sysfs.