Le lundi 03 juillet 2006 à 20:49 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt a écrit :
> On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 12:45 +0200, Michael Hanselmann wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 12:12:47PM +0200, Stelian Pop wrote:
> > > > +
> > > > +static DEVICE_ATTR(mouse, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
> > > > + ams_mouse_show_mouse, ams_mouse_store_mouse);
> >
> > > I would prefer three different files for x, y and z instead of a single
> > > one...
> >
> > Because of the way the values are calculated with orientation, that
> > would mean that if a program needs all three, either all values are read
> > three times or the ams_sensors function gets much more complicated.
> >
> > To prevent it from having to read them three times in a row, I joined
> > all three values.
> >
> > Do you think I should rewrite the ams_sensors function to only get the
> > correct value?
>
> Cache the values and only re-read from the hardware after a given amount
> of time has elapsed ?
Seems to be a good idea indeed.
Stelian.
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Stelian Pop <[email protected]>
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