On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 10:25:23PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > 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. Ick, no. What are you trying to do here? Have the kernel intrepret a sequence of bytes to flash an LED? I thought we have frameworks in userspace already to handle this type of thing. Please don't invent new ways of doing stuff... greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html