https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201609 --- Comment #9 from James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- On Wed, 2019-01-30 at 11:43 +0000, bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201609 > > Emil Velikov (emil.l.velikov@xxxxxxxxx) changed: > > What |Removed |Added > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > CC| |emil.l.velikov@gmail > .com > > --- Comment #5 from Emil Velikov (emil.l.velikov@xxxxxxxxx) --- > The other five files ({subsystem_,}{vendor,device} and class) do not > have a prefix, so the more reasonable thing was it not add one for > the revision file. No, it wasn't. This is the problem. In the early days we all grabbed un-namespaced names in this directory. If you add another un- namespaced file, a clash is likely to happen which has serious consequences. If you want to add a generically named file, you have to check all the drivers before doing it. If you clash with a file that's in use by userspace, your new addition gets reverted because we can't rename an in-use file because it's an exported ABI. > That said, I did spend a lot of time going through the Documentation > looking for guidelines, rules or restrictions that should be applied > and could not find any. The PCI subsystem maintainer did not suggest > adding a prefix either, so I would not use "blatently silly" here. Either you prefix the addition or you check every driver ... neither happened in this case. > On a more practical side - the aic94xx driver custom revision file > solves the exact same problem my patch does. Admittedly, aic94xx > lacks the leading "0x" for the hexadecimal number provided. > > My personal inclination is that we'd want to check if existing > userspace > requires the leading 0x and if so to what extend: > - cosmetic - remove the aic94xx code, update userspace > - unused - remove the aic94xx code > - major impact - the aic94xx driver removes the generic revision > file, before setting it's own > > Does that sound reasonable, am I missing something? I think we're safe and the aic file isn't used from userspace, so just renaming the aic revision file should work. James -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug.
