On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 7:21 AM Rafael J. Wysocki <raf...@kernel.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 8:05 PM Saravana Kannan <sarava...@google.com> wrote: > > > > 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> > > Well, this makes sense in principle, but I wonder how much risk of > breaking anything in user space there is?
The original patch got in only a week or two before this patch. So I don't think there's any real risk of breaking user space here. Also, it hasn't been part of any kernel release version yet. So I think we are safe. Also, Greg already took it. -Saravana
