> -----Original Message----- > From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, October 31, 2016 5:44 AM > To: KY Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > olaf@xxxxxxxxx; apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx; > jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx; leann.ogasawara@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Stephen > Hemminger <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/15] vmbus: make sysfs names consistent with PCI > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 12:41:47AM -0700, kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > > From: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > In commit 9a56e5d6a0ba ("Drivers: hv: make VMBus bus ids persistent") > > the name of vmbus devices in sysfs changed to be (in 4.9-rc1): > > /sys/bus/vmbus/vmbus-6aebe374-9ba0-11e6-933c-00259086b36b > > > > The prefix ("vmbus-") is redundant and differs from how PCI is > > represented in sysfs. Therefore simplify to: > > /sys/bus/vmbus/6aebe374-9ba0-11e6-933c-00259086b36b > > > > Please merge this before 4.9 is released and the old format > > has to live forever. > > Why have you included this in a patchset that will not get merged until > 4.10-rc1??? > > You want this in 4.9, right? > > confused, Sorry about that; I will send this separately. K. Y > > greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
