On 7/28/06, Brown, Len <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
good for shell scripts, not clear it is better for C programs that have to open a bunch of files by name.
Wonderful, but isn't the key here how simple it is for HAL or X to understand and use the kernel API rather than the developers of the kernel driver that implements the API?
For a C program it's just open()+fscanf()+close(). You can easily wrap it up in a 10-line function, and that's probably what HAL and friends are already doing. Anyway, I was just pointing out a practical advantage. The decision about sysfs's textual interface has already been taken, for better or worse, and I don't think it's good to invent a totally new interface unless there's a strong technical reason why the sysfs model is inappropriate for this task. Shem - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
