Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 5 authors, 2020-02-24

[PATCH] Revert "PM / devfreq: Modify the device name as devfreq(X) for sysfs"

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From: Orson Zhai <hidden>
Date: 2020-02-20 17:37:40
Also in: lkml, stable
Subsystem: device frequency (devfreq), the rest · Maintainers: MyungJoo Ham, Kyungmin Park, Chanwoo Choi, Linus Torvalds

This reverts commit 4585fbcb5331fc910b7e553ad3efd0dd7b320d14.

The name changing as devfreq(X) breaks some user space applications,
such as Android HAL from Unisoc and Hikey [1].
The device name will be changed unexpectly after every boot depending
on module init sequence. It will make trouble to setup some system
configuration like selinux for Android.

So we'd like to revert it back to old naming rule before any better
way being found.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/5/8/1042

Cc: John Stultz <redacted>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Orson Zhai <redacted>

---
 drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
index cceee8b..7dcf209 100644
--- a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
+++ b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
@@ -738,7 +738,6 @@ struct devfreq *devfreq_add_device(struct device *dev,
 {
 	struct devfreq *devfreq;
 	struct devfreq_governor *governor;
-	static atomic_t devfreq_no = ATOMIC_INIT(-1);
 	int err = 0;
 
 	if (!dev || !profile || !governor_name) {
@@ -800,8 +799,7 @@ struct devfreq *devfreq_add_device(struct device *dev,
 	devfreq->suspend_freq = dev_pm_opp_get_suspend_opp_freq(dev);
 	atomic_set(&devfreq->suspend_count, 0);
 
-	dev_set_name(&devfreq->dev, "devfreq%d",
-				atomic_inc_return(&devfreq_no));
+	dev_set_name(&devfreq->dev, "%s", dev_name(dev));
 	err = device_register(&devfreq->dev);
 	if (err) {
 		mutex_unlock(&devfreq->lock);
-- 
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