On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 14:43 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me > know. > > ------------------ > > From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > commit 42caa0edabd6a0a392ec36a5f0943924e4954311 upstream. > > The aic94xx driver is currently failing to load with errors like > > sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename > '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:02:00.3/0000:07:02.0/revision' > > Because the PCI code had recently added a file named 'revision' to > every PCI device. Fix this by renaming the aic94xx revision file to > aic_revision. This is safe to do for us because as far as I can > tell, there's nothing in userspace relying on the current aic94xx > revision file so it can be renamed without breaking anything. > > Fixes: 702ed3be1b1b (PCI: Create revision file in sysfs) jejb@jarvis:~/git/linux> git describe --contains 702ed3be1b1b v4.10-rc1~94^2~18^2~1 I suppose interface consistency is useful, but under the stable rules, shouldn't this only be ported as far back as the bug it fixes? James
