Re: [PATCH 0/3] Generic sysfs support for ACPI ALS and other ALS devices

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On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 23:10 +0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 03:21:29PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Mon 2009-08-03 17:10:57, Zhang Rui wrote:
> > > Hi, all,
> > > 
> > > This is the patch set I made to introduce ACPI ALS device driver
> > > and a generic sysfs I/F for all the ALS devices, like ACPI ALS,
> > > platform ALS, etc.
> > > 
> > > Patch 01 introduces the ACPI ALS device driver.
> > > 
> > > Patch 02 introduces ALS sysfs class.
> > > 	Two sysfs I/F are created for each ALS device.
> > >   /sys/class/als/alsX/illuminance:
> > > 	the amount of light incident upon a specified surface area.
> > >   /sys/class/als/alsX/mappings:
> > > 	ambient light illuminance to display luminance mappings
> > > 	that can be used by an OS to calibrate its ambient light policy
> > > 	this is what I got on a test box:
> > > 	cat /sys/class/als/als0/mappings
> > > 	???Illuminance	Adjustment
> > > 	          0	       70
> > > 	         10	       73
> > > 	         80	       85
> > > 	        300	      100
> > > 	       1000	      150
> > 
> > There's one value per file for sysfs... You should definitely have the
> > header. 
> 
> No, no "header", just don't do this, it's not allowed. Again,
> one-value-per-sysfs-file is the rule, please do not violate it.
> 
Okay.
how about 
/sys/class/als/als0/mapping{0, 1, ...}/illuminance
and 
/sys/class/als/als0/mapping{0, 1, ...}/adjustment

> > Plus I'd say Documentation/ file is needed.
> 
> It's required for any new sysfs file being added to the kernel.
> 
Okay, I'll add the document file.

thanks,
rui

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