Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932427AbbKCT50 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Nov 2015 14:57:26 -0500 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:38984 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932236AbbKCT5Z (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Nov 2015 14:57:25 -0500 Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 20:57:24 +0100 (CET) From: Jiri Kosina X-X-Sender: jkosina@pobox.suse.cz To: Petr Mladek cc: Miroslav Benes , Chris J Arges , live-patching@vger.kernel.org, jeyu@redhat.com, Josh Poimboeuf , Seth Jennings , Vojtech Pavlik , linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] livepatch: old_name.number scheme in livepatch sysfs directory In-Reply-To: <20151103124440.GK2599@pathway.suse.cz> Message-ID: References: <20151102203241.GF27488@treble.redhat.com> <1446505187-28970-1-git-send-email-chris.j.arges@canonical.com> <20151103124440.GK2599@pathway.suse.cz> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 639 Lines: 18 On Tue, 3 Nov 2015, Petr Mladek wrote: > Also I would omit the suffix at all when it is the first occurrence. It > will cause that unique symbols will not be numbered. That'd mean that the names (including suffixes) are not stable, because a particular name that has originally been unique can later be made non-unique when module brings in a conflicting name. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/