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 <sarava...@google.com>
---
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-devlink | 2 +-
drivers/base/core.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-devlink
b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-devlink
index 3a24973abb83..64791b65c9a3 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-devlink
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-devlink
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Contact: Saravana Kannan <sarava...@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.
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index b6e8b0bb76e4..4d05868d9356 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -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);
--
2.28.0.rc0.142.g3c755180ce-goog
