Re: [PATCH 1/3] pda_power: add support for writeable properties

From: Anton Vorontsov
Date: Tue May 11 2010 - 14:33:00 EST


On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:58:12PM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote:
[...]
> > Plus, that way you don't need is_writable().
>
> Ugh, really? I would _much_ prefer to actually _see_ which property is
> writeable, just from looking at the file attributes in sysfs.

Well, yeah... that would be also good for userland apps (GUI
apps, in particular). Though, I'm not yet sure how to implement
it without modifying a global array...

To avoid the race that I described in previous email we could
insert some mutex, but I'd like to avoid the global stuff.

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