Re: [PATCH V5 1/2] introduce ALS sysfs class

[Zhang Rui]

On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 16:34 +0800, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
> > +What:		/sys/class/als/als[0-N]/desc
> > +Date:		Aug. 2009
> > +KernelVersion:	2.6.32
> > +Contact:	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > +Description:	Strings which descibes the current Ambient Light Sensor
> > +		device. This is given by native ALS driver as part of
> > +		registration. e.g: "acpi_als" for ACPI ALS devices.
> > +		RO
> 
> Normal way to do that (backlight class does it, for example) is to
> have acpi_als instead of als0, and get rid of desc field.

IMO, both are okay, hard to say which is preferred.
Other sysfs classes like scsi_host, hwmon, input use this as well.
and you don't have a really strong objection to this, right? :)

thanks,
rui

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