Greg,
Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote on 11/10/2006 07:53:36 AM:
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 07:27:56PM +0100, Michael Holzheu wrote:
> > If you want to export data to userspace via a virtual filesystem
> > like sysfs, the following rules are recommended:
>
> Um, does this mean you expect us to change all of the currently existing
> sysfs file names? And people get mad at me when I just move sysfs
> symlinks around...
No, of course we should not change existing kernel interfaces.
> Look at the hwmon drivers, and the documentation in
> Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface for a description of how we have
> been documenting this already.
Yes, it is an option to document units in seperate files. But I personally
think,
that this is only the second best solution. Especially since normally
documentation is not read.
>
> In short, I don't really think we need to encode the units in the file
> name, somehow we have done pretty well without it so far :)
Why not trying to make things better than they used to be?
At least for our s390_hypfs I would like to use the suggested naming
scheme. It is new and therefore not burdened with other naming
conventions. Ok?
So, no "Documentation/filesystems/ExportData" patch?
Michael
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