Re: [PATCH] misc/genalloc: Name subpools by of_node_full_name()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun Jul 16 2023 - 04:13:29 EST


On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 09:44:39AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> Greg, could you apply this patch for fixes?
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 9:45 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > A previous commit tried to come up with more generic subpool
> > names, but this isn't quite working: the node name was used
> > elsewhere to match pools to consumers which regressed the
> > nVidia Tegra 2/3 video decoder.
> >
> > Revert back to an earlier approach using of_node_full_name()
> > instead of just the name to make sure the pool name is more
> > unique, and change both sites using this in the kernel.
> >
> > It is not perfect since two SRAM nodes could have the same
> > subpool name but it makes the situation better than before.
> >
> > Reported-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Fixes: 21e5a2d10c8f ("misc: sram: Generate unique names for subpools")
> > Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

Let me catch up with emails over the next week or so, I'll queue it up
then, thanks.

greg k-h