Re: RFC: exposing controls in sysfs

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On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Mike Isely wrote:

> 
> Backwards compatibility is very important and thus any kind of new 
> interface deserves a lot of forethought to ensure that choices are made 
> in the present that people will regret in the future.  Making an 

"in the present that people will NOT (!!) regret in the future."

Holy cow, what a typo...  :-)

  -Mike

> interface self-describing is one way that helps with compatibility: if 
> the app can discover on its own how to use the interface then it can 
> adapt to interface changes in the future.  I think a lot of people get 
> their brains so wrapped around the "ioctl-way" of doing things and then 
> they try to map that concept into a sysfs-like (or debugfs-like) 
> abstraction that they don't see how to naturally take advantage of what 
> is possible there.
> 
>   -Mike
> 
> 

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