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

[Yajun Deng]

December 20, 2024 at 12:52 AM, "Florian Fainelli" <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



> 
> On 12/19/24 02:20, Andrew Lunn wrote:
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> > 
> > 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.
> 

Okay, I got it.

> -- Florian
>