On Mon, 24 Feb 2014, Dan Williams wrote: > > Also, the gyrations you have to go through here and elsewhere to print > > useful names indicate that we should set up better names for the port > > devices. How about: > > > > dev_set_name(&port_dev->dev, "%s-port%d", dev_name(&hub->hdev->dev), > > port1); > > I like it, however isn't this an ABI change that could mess up existing scripts? What existing scripts? Right now the only useful information is the connect_type attribute. Unless you think people are already using the power-off facility? > What's worse, in-kernel gymnastics to print out useful names, or > adding sysfs links from the old short name to the new name? Normally I'd agree, but this is a marginal case. What do other people think? Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
