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

[KY Srinivasan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2016 5:44 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> olaf@xxxxxxxxx; apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx;
> jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx; leann.ogasawara@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Stephen
> Hemminger <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/15] vmbus: make sysfs names consistent with PCI
> 
> 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,

Sorry about that; I will send this separately.

K. Y
> 
> greg k-h