Hi,
I understand and why not. But:
1 - we were inspired by the existing in some socket-can drivers
2 - these identifiers are not literally stored in an eeprom
3 - the memory storage address is not necessarily an information known by the user, is different depending on the CAN-USB interface and can be subject to change over time
4 - reading sysfs makes the assignment of an interface name much easier IMHO
Maybe you have another suggestion for the location of this entry in sysfs?
— Stéphane
De: Marc Kleine-Budde
Envoyé: Mercredi 17 novembre 2021 16:16
À: Stéphane Grosjean
Cc: linux-can Mailing List
Objet: Re: [PATCH 6/6] can: peak_usb: add sysfs interface to internal device user value
On 17.11.2021 16:01:32, Stephane Grosjean wrote:
> This patch adds under /sys/class/net/canX a new group named "peak_usb"
> which contains a "dev_num" entry accessible for reading (display in
> decimal of the numerical value stored in non-volatile memory of the USB
> device) and also for writing (modification by the user of this value).
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephane Grosjean <s.grosjean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Please have a look at the ethtool eeprom interface:
| ethtool -e|--eeprom-dump devname [raw on|off] [offset N] [length N]
| ethtool -E|--change-eeprom devname [magic N] [offset N] [length N] [value N]
That looks better than adding a custom sysfs entry.
Marc
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