On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 06:32:26PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> If you really want to stick with the one value model on the read-only
> attributes, how about a sysfs function that takes a variable and a
> string array of enum values. It creates a subdirectory named for the
> variable and makes attributes in the directory matching the names from
> the enum. The subdirectory avoids namespace collisions. The attributes
> are then managed like a set of radio buttons so that only one can be
> set non-zero at a time. The driver read/write functions for the
> variable never knows this is going on, read/write just works with an
> index into the array.
That might be interesting. Send a patch and I'll seriously consider it.
thanks,
greg k-h
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