On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 01:32:29PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 7:41 PM, <Mario.Limonciello@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> On Dec 8, 2017, at 6:34 PM, Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> > >>> It's possible for the same GUID to show up on as system twice. > >>> This means using solely the GUID for identify the file will not > >>> be sufficient. > >> > >>Isn't the file already in a per-bus directory? > > > > Yep, but the symlink created in /sys/bus/wmi/devices isn't. > > That's where the kernel complains about duplicate sysfs > > attributes. > > > > It's not exactly a pretty path I submitted, but it does avoid > > those collisions. > > > > Example (with this in place from /sys/bus/wmi/devices): > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Dec 8 21:39 PNP0C14:04-70FE8229-D03B-4214-A1C6-1F884B1A892A -> ../../../devices/platform/PNP0C14:04/wmi_bus/wmi_bus-PNP0C14:04/PNP0C14:04-70FE8229-D03B-4214-A1C6-1F884B1A892A > > Right, I saw that in the cover letter right after sending this. > > Greg, is there a cleaner way to deal with this? There are two > instances of the same bus type, each of which would like to have a > device called "70FE8229-D03B-4214-A1C6-1F884B1A892A". Can we somehow > rename the symlinks without renaming the device, or are we just > supposed to prefix the device name like Mario is doing here? > Mario, This one has been lingering at the bottom of my patch stack for a while now - sorry for not poking on this earlier. Is this still something you have a need for? If so, would you resend and add Greg to Cc - specifically directing Andy's question above to him? -- Darren Hart VMware Open Source Technology Center
