[alsa-devel] [RFC] i2c: Revert back to old device naming for ACPI enumerated I2C slaves

[Jarkko Nikula]

On 10/01/2015 11:37 PM, Wolfram Sang wrote:
>
>> This is for discussion so I didn't cc stable at vger.kernel.org yet. I was
>> thinking would it work if we'd keep the stable name but have an another
>> symlink in /sys/bus/i2c/devices/ that uses "x-00yz" name. However this
>> feels ill-use of devices directory and probably causes more troubles
>> elsewhere.
>
> Do you foresee troubles already? I am still in favour of a symlink.
>
I haven't looked at this for a while but one problem was that devices/ 
directory belongs to private structure of struct bus_type and in order 
to create a symlink there it needs to done in drivers/base/bus.c: 
bus_add_device() which felt quite hackish to me.

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Jarkko