Re: [PATCH v1 3/8] software node: Show properties and their values in sysfs

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On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 9:47 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 12:20:07AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > It's very convenient to see what properties and their values
> > are currently being assigned in the registered software nodes.
> >
> > Show properties and their values in sysfs.

...

> > +             for (i = 0; i < prop->length / sizeof(u8); i++)
> > +                     len += sysfs_emit_at(buf, len, "%u,", ((u8 *)pointer)[i]);
>
> No, sysfs is "one value per file", and that is not what you are showing
> here at all :(

It is following: it's a "one value" for property in question,

As we may read in [1]: "...so it is socially acceptable to express an
array of values of the same type."

And here is exactly the case: *values of the same type*.

> Also, there is no Documentation/ABI/ entries for your new sysfs files,
> so that means we couldn't take this patcheset anyway :(

True, I'll fix this, thanks!

[1]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/sysfs.html

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



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