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Revert "PM / devfreq: Modify the device name as devfreq(X) for sysfs"
authorOrson Zhai <orson.unisoc@gmail.com>
Thu, 20 Feb 2020 17:37:04 +0000 (01:37 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 5 Mar 2020 15:45:16 +0000 (16:45 +0100)
commit6db1c5c69c74c3fb9611eabffeee06dce9436cf7
treefcb92c120f05845a176a761bc7301ddf723810ce
parent0d3552f4c609b98a27ca0f3a9f954f80e435856e
Revert "PM / devfreq: Modify the device name as devfreq(X) for sysfs"

commit 66d0e797bf095d407479c89952d42b1d96ef0a7f upstream.

This reverts commit 4585fbcb5331fc910b7e553ad3efd0dd7b320d14.

The name changing as devfreq(X) breaks some user space applications,
such as Android HAL from Unisoc and Hikey [1].
The device name will be changed unexpectly after every boot depending
on module init sequence. It will make trouble to setup some system
configuration like selinux for Android.

So we'd like to revert it back to old naming rule before any better
way being found.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/5/8/1042

Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Orson Zhai <orson.unisoc@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c