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From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 1 Aug 2019 01:00:03 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] PM / wakeup: show wakeup sources stats in sysfs
To:     Tri Vo <trong@android.com>
Cc:     Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
        Hridya Valsaraju <hridya@google.com>,
        Sandeep Patil <sspatil@google.com>,
        Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>,
        Ravi Chandra Sadineni <ravisadineni@chromium.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linux PM <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
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On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 12:42 AM Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> wrote:
>
> On Thursday, August 1, 2019 12:31:16 AM CEST Tri Vo wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 3:17 PM Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wednesday, July 31, 2019 11:59:32 PM CEST Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > > > Quoting Tri Vo (2019-07-31 14:55:14)
> > > > > +/**
> > > > > + * wakeup_source_sysfs_add - Add wakeup_source attributes to sysfs.
> > > > > + * @parent: Device given wakeup source is associated with (or NULL if virtual).
> > > > > + * @ws: Wakeup source to be added in sysfs.
> > > > > + */
> > > > > +int wakeup_source_sysfs_add(struct device *parent, struct wakeup_source *ws)
> > > > > +{
> > > > > +       struct device *dev;
> > > > > +       int id;
> > > > > +
> > > > > +       id = ida_alloc(&wakeup_ida, GFP_KERNEL);
> > >
> > > So can anyone remind me why the IDA thing is needed here at all?
> >
> > IDA is used to generate the directory name ("ws%d", ID) that is unique
> > among wakeup_sources. That is what ends up in
> > /sys/class/wakeup/ws<ID>/* path.
>
> That's not my point (see below).
>
> > > > > +       if (id < 0)
> > > > > +               return id;
> > > > > +       ws->id = id;
> > > > > +
> > > > > +       dev = device_create_with_groups(wakeup_class, parent, MKDEV(0, 0), ws,
> > > > > +                                       wakeup_source_groups, "ws%d",
> > > >
> > > > I thought the name was going to still be 'wakeupN'?
> > >
> > > So can't we prefix the wakeup source name with something like "wakeup:" or similar here?
> >
> > "ws%d" here is the name in the sysfs path rather than the name of the
> > wakeup source. Wakeup source name is not altered in this patch.
> >
>
> So why wouldn't something like this suffice:
>
> dev = device_create_with_groups(wakeup_class, parent, MKDEV(0, 0), ws,
>                                 wakeup_source_groups, "wakeup:%s", ws->name);
>
> ?

And more generally speaking, we are adding another way to identify
wakeup sources (by id), which is not related to the one we already
have (by name).  Why do we need both of them?