Re: [PATCH 12/15] vmbus: make sysfs names consistent with PCI

[Greg KH]

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,

greg k-h