Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc3] dell_rbu: New Dell BIOS update driver

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On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 05:05:20PM -0500, Abhay Salunke wrote:
> +static struct bin_attribute rbudata_attr = {
> +	.attr = {.name = "rbudata", .owner = THIS_MODULE, .mode = 0644},
> +	.read = read_rbu_data,
> +	.write = write_rbu_data,
> +};
> +
> +static struct bin_attribute rbudatasize_attr = {
> +	.attr = { .name = "rbudatasize", .owner = THIS_MODULE, .mode = 0644 },
> +	.read = read_rbu_data_size,
> +	.write= write_rbu_data_size,
> +};
> +
> +static struct bin_attribute packetdatasize_attr = {
> +	.attr = { .name = "packetdatasize", .owner = THIS_MODULE, .mode = 0644 },
> +	.read = read_packet_data_size,
> +	.write= write_packet_data_size,
> +};
> +
> +static struct bin_attribute packetdata_attr = {
> +	.attr = { .name = "packetdata", .owner = THIS_MODULE, .mode = 0644 },
> +	.read = read_rbu_packet_data,
> +	.write= write_rbu_packet_data,
> +};

I can understand having the data use the sysfs binary attribute, but do
not do this for the size files.  Please just use a normal attribute for
them, the binary ones are _only_ for blobs of data that are not
interpreted by the kernel.

thanks,

greg k-h
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