Re: [PATCH] pktcdvd: added sysfs interface + bio write queue handling fix

Greg KH wrote:

On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 07:55:08PM +0200, Thomas Maier wrote:

+/sys/block/pktcdvd/<pktdevname>/packet/
+    statistic         (r)  Show device statistic. One line with
+                           5 values in following order:
+                              packets-started
+                              packets-end
+                              written in kB
+                              read gather in kB
+                              read in kB

Please no.  One value per file is the sysfs rule.

Except in cases like this where you want to read the status of the device at a given point in time, and you can't do that unless you grab all the values at once.

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