linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: mdio_bus: change the bus name to mdio

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Message-ID: <f062d436-5448-418a-9969-f1c368e10f8c@lunn.ch>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 11:20:22 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@...ux.dev>
Cc: hkallweit1@...il.com, linux@...linux.org.uk, davem@...emloft.net,
	edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: mdio_bus: change the bus name to mdio

On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 06:04:54PM +0800, Yajun Deng wrote:
> Since all directories under the /sys/bus are bus, we don't need to add a
> bus suffix to mdio.
> 
> This is the only one directory with the bus suffix, sysfs-bus-mdio is
> now a testing ABI, and didn't have Users in it. This is the time to change
> it before it's moved to the stable ABI.

So are you saying nobody has udev scripts referencing MDIO devices?
Nobody has scripts accessing the statistics? You don't expect anything
in userspace to break because of this change?

I personally think it is too late to change this, something will break
and somebody will report a regression.

	Andrew