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

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sat Dec 28 2013 - 16:25:36 EST


Hi!

> >> 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.

echo -ne '\012' is not that bad, and parsing array of integers from
kernel will be an ugly piece of code.

Anyway I don't care much, either byte array or ascii array of integers
is fine with me. (But I was under impression that after /proc
experiences, the latter is forbidden; I might be wrong.
/data/l/linux-good/Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt should be updated).

Pavel
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