On Wed, 2019-01-30 at 16:42 -0800, James Bottomley wrote: > The aic94xx driver is currently failing to load with errors like > > sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename > '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:02:00.3/0000:07:02.0/revision' > > Because the PCI code had recently added a file named 'revision' to > every PCI device. Fix this by renaming the aic94xx revision file to > aic_revision. This is safe to do for us because as far as I can tell, > there's nothing in userspace relying on the current aic94xx revision > file so it can be renamed without breaking anything. > > Fixes: 702ed3be1b1b (PCI: Create revision file in sysfs) > Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <james.bottom...@hansenpartnership.com>
I finally managed to test this on actual hardware and it works for me. I don't have any aic94xx cards, just a couple of IBM donated machines that have aic94xx built in on an internal PCI express bus daughter card, so I had to find them and persuade them to boot modern kernels before I could actually test anything, hence the delay. James
