Re: [PATCH] soundwire: fix initializing sysfs for same devices on different buses

From: Mark Brown
Date: Wed Oct 04 2023 - 11:40:36 EST


On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 11:16:09AM -0400, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:

> > matching the name is fine (if you are matching it against an existing
> > name) but expecting the name to be anything specific is not going to
> > work as the name is dynamic and can/will change each boot.

> Not following, sorry.

> In the SoundWire context, the device name directly follows the ACPI or
> Device Tree information, I don't really see how its name could change on
> each boot (assuming no DSDT override or overlays of course). The
> platform descriptors are pretty much fixed, aren't they?

> Intel and AMD make such assumptions on names for pretty much all machine
> drivers, it's not really something new - probably 15+ years? Adding Mark
> Brown in CC: to make sure he's aware of this thread.

FWIW DT is much less affected here since all the inter-device references
are explicit in the DT (modulo needing to work around breakage) so we're
not hard coding in the way ACPI so unfortunately requires.

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