Commit 90b109d5 authored by Saravana Kannan's avatar Saravana Kannan Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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driver core: Change delimiter in devlink device's name to "--" 



The devlink device name is of the form "supplier:consumer". But ":" is
fairly common in device names and makes it visually hard to distinguish
supplier and consumer. So, replace it with "--" to make it easier.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSaravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200724180523.1393383-1-saravanak@google.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent a24c6f7b

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-devlink

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Description:

		Provide a place in sysfs for the device link objects in the

		kernel at any given time.  The name of a device link directory,

		denoted as ... above, is of the form <supplier>:<consumer>

		denoted as ... above, is of the form <supplier>--<consumer>

		where <supplier> is the supplier device name and <consumer> is

		the consumer device name.

drivers/base/core.c

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@@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ struct device_link *device_link_add(struct device *consumer, 


	link->link_dev.class = &devlink_class;

	device_set_pm_not_required(&link->link_dev);

	dev_set_name(&link->link_dev, "%s:%s",

	dev_set_name(&link->link_dev, "%s--%s",

		     dev_name(supplier), dev_name(consumer));

	if (device_register(&link->link_dev)) {

		put_device(consumer);

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