Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: mdio_bus: change the bus name to mdio

[Florian Fainelli]

On 12/19/24 02:20, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 06:04:54PM +0800, Yajun Deng wrote:
> > Since all directories under the /sys/bus are bus, we don't need to add a
> > bus suffix to mdio.
> >
> > This is the only one directory with the bus suffix, sysfs-bus-mdio is
> > now a testing ABI, and didn't have Users in it. This is the time to change
> > it before it's moved to the stable ABI.
>
> So are you saying nobody has udev scripts referencing MDIO devices?
> Nobody has scripts accessing the statistics? You don't expect anything
> in userspace to break because of this change?
>
> I personally think it is too late to change this, something will break
> and somebody will report a regression.

It is too late, merging this patch would be breaking ABI and that is not 
acceptable.
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Florian