Re: [PATCH v4] driver core: Fix device link device name collision

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 08:01:24PM +0100, Michael Walle wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am 2021-01-10 18:54, schrieb Saravana Kannan:
> > The device link device's name was of the form:
> > <supplier-dev-name>--<consumer-dev-name>
> > 
> > This can cause name collision as reported here [1] as device names are
> > not globally unique. Since device names have to be unique within the
> > bus/class, add the bus/class name as a prefix to the device names used
> > to
> > construct the device link device name.
> > 
> > So the devuce link device's name will be of the form:
> > <supplier-bus-name>:<supplier-dev-name>--<consumer-bus-name>:<consumer-dev-name>
> > 
> > [1] -
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201229033440.32142-1-michael@xxxxxxxx/
> > 
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Fixes: 287905e68dd2 ("driver core: Expose device link details in sysfs")
> > Reported-by: Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx>
> > Tested-by: Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> 
> Greg, any news here?

Burried in other patches...

I'll go pick this up now, sorry for the delay.

greg k-h