Re: drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c: duplicate sysfs file

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On November 13, 2017 2:24:23 PM PST, Guenter Roeck <groeck@google.com> wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 2:01 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
><dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 12:14:41PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>> The sysfs warning, yes. However, after unbinding and rebinding the
>>> driver, "cat /sys/firmware/vpd/rw_raw" will result in a crash.
>>>
>>> Sequence:
>>>
>>> echo vpd > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/vpd/unbind
>>> echo vpd > /sys/bus/platform/drivers/vpd/bind # <-- nasty message
>>>
>>> cat /sys/firmware/vpd/rw_raw # <-- crash
>>
>> I'd disable unbind (.suppress_bind_attrs = true) and commented out
>> unload for now. And then looked into fixing properly.
>>
>
>Fixing properly is easy as long as we retain the platform device; I
>already have a set of patches doing just that. I have no idea how to
>implement the non-platform-device variant, if that is what you mean
>with "properly".

Ah, ok then.


Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry