Re: [PATCH 3/3] Documentation: ABI: sysfs-driver-regulator-output

From: Mark Brown
Date: Mon Sep 04 2023 - 08:24:44 EST


On Sun, Sep 03, 2023 at 05:48:14PM -0700, Zev Weiss wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 03, 2023 at 06:04:23AM PDT, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> > But yes, reading a sysfs should almost never cause a side affect at all.

> > But what do you mean by "clear events?"

> I mean that when the sysfs file is read, the state variable whose value it
> exposes is also cleared as a side-effect (so the read operation "consumes"
> the value it returns) -- see the implementation in patch 2 of this series
> (specifically the 'data->events = 0' assignment in events_show()):

It's a clear on read interrupt.

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