On Tue, 2020-10-13 at 19:17 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Mon 2020-10-05 19:41:15, Joe Perches wrote: > > This doesn't seem like a great idea to me. > > > > For my system I've got: > > > > /sys/devices/platform/Fixed MDIO bus.0/ > > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/int3401 thermal/ > > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/int3403 thermal/ > > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/int3400 thermal/ > > /sys/bus/mdio_bus/drivers/Generic PHY/ > > /sys/bus/mdio_bus/drivers/Generic Clause 45 PHY/ > > /sys/bus/pnp/drivers/i8042 aux/ > > /sys/bus/pnp/drivers/i8042 kbd/ > > /sys/bus/i2c/drivers/CHT Whiskey Cove PMIC/ > > > > Could these filenames be avoided in the future or > > even renamed today? > > Does not look like great idea to me, either. Hmm. Is there filename > with "/" in it? :-) > > But I guess you'd need to cc relevant maintainers and that this is > going to be a bit of whack-a-mole.
An option might be to convert any invalid filename via an alloc and substitution in sysfs_add_file and similar free in sysfs_remove_file. Emitting a logging message describing any new name would be useful too.
