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authorSaravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>2020-07-24 21:05:22 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-07-24 21:55:25 +0300
commit90b109d50da09ddaa179732c01ccba7f759c125d (patch)
treeab4cbac82ee9c663a4106adc2bf7157fc4105003 /Documentation/ABI
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downloadlinux-90b109d50da09ddaa179732c01ccba7f759c125d.tar.xz
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: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200724180523.1393383-1-saravanak@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-devlink b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-devlink
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--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-devlink
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-devlink
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Contact: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
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.