Re: how to represent sequence of brightnesses in /sys (was Re:[PATCH] Add the LED burst trigger)

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Sat Dec 28 2013 - 14:34:50 EST


On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> Sysfs is meant to be human-readable/writable, so please use plain ASCII
>> numbers in strings instead.
>
> Actually, sysfs is meant to be one value per file, and it is

Ideally, yes.

> understood that data that are "natively blob" are just passed as
> blob. (I believe this qualifies).

But it doesn't buy us much here, does it? It will make e.g. shell scripts
needlessly complicated.

> Sequence of ascii numbers would work for me, but I don't think that is
> allowed.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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