Re: [PATCH v5] PM / wakeup: show wakeup sources stats in sysfs

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 10:13:57AM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Rafael J. Wysocki (2019-07-31 04:58:36)
> > On Wednesday, July 31, 2019 10:34:11 AM CEST Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 1:41 AM Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > 
> > > > We can run into the same problem when two buses name their devices the
> > > > same name and then we attempt to attach a wakeup source to those two
> > > > devices. Or we can have a problem where a virtual wakeup is made with
> > > > the same name, and again we'll try to make a duplicate named device.
> > > > Using something like 'event' or 'wakeup' or 'ws' as the prefix avoids this
> > > > problem and keeps things clean.
> > > 
> > > Or suffix, like "<devname-wakeup>.
> > > 
> > > But if prefixes are used by an existing convention, I would prefer
> > > "ws-" as it is concise enough and should not be confusing.
> 
> Another possibility is 'eventN', so it reads as /sys/class/wakeup/event0

"eventX" is a prefix already used by the input subsystem, so you might
run into conflicts here :(

"wakeupX" makes sense, no namespace colisions there at all.

thanks,

greg k-h