[PATCH] nvdimm/of_pmem: Provide a unique name for bus provider

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 9:00 PM Aneesh Kumar K.V
<aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> ndctl utility requires the ndbus to have unique names. If not while
> enumerating the bus in userspace it drops bus with similar names.
> This results in us not listing devices beneath the bus.

It does?

>
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/nvdimm/of_pmem.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/of_pmem.c b/drivers/nvdimm/of_pmem.c
> index a0c8dcfa0bf9..97187d6c0bdb 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvdimm/of_pmem.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/of_pmem.c
> @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ static int of_pmem_region_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>                 return -ENOMEM;
>
>         priv->bus_desc.attr_groups = bus_attr_groups;
> -       priv->bus_desc.provider_name = "of_pmem";
> +       priv->bus_desc.provider_name = kstrdup(pdev->name, GFP_KERNEL);

This looks ok to me to address support for older ndctl binaries, but
I'd like to also fix the ndctl bug that makes non-unique provider
names fail.