Re: 0.led_name 2.other.led.name in /sysfs Re: [PATCH/RFC v11 01/20] leds: flash: document sysfs interface

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On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 12:57:33PM +0200, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> Hi Pavel and Greg,
> 
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 09:57:38PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Fri 2015-02-20 07:36:16, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 08:56:11AM +0100, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:
> > > > On 02/19/2015 10:40 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > >On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:02:04AM +0200, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> > > > >>On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 11:47:47PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>On Wed 2015-02-18 17:20:22, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:
> > > > >>>>Add a documentation of LED Flash class specific sysfs attributes.
> > > > >>>>
> > > > >>>>Signed-off-by: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > >>>>Acked-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > >>>>Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > >>>>Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>NAK-ed-by: Pavel Machek
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>>+What:		/sys/class/leds/<led>/available_sync_leds
> > > > >>>>+Date:		February 2015
> > > > >>>>+KernelVersion:	3.20
> > > > >>>>+Contact:	Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > >>>>+Description:	read/write
> > > > >>>>+		Space separated list of LEDs available for flash strobe
> > > > >>>>+		synchronization, displayed in the format:
> > > > >>>>+
> > > > >>>>+		led1_id.led1_name led2_id.led2_name led3_id.led3_name etc.
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>Multiple values per file, with all the problems we had in /proc. I
> > > > >>>assume led_id is an integer? What prevents space or dot in led name?
> > > > >>
> > > > >>Very good point. How about using a newline instead? That'd be a little bit
> > > > >>easier to parse, too.
> > > > >
> > > > >No, please make it one value per-file, which is what sysfs requires.
> > > > 
> > > > The purpose of this attribute is only to provide an information about
> > > > the range of valid identifiers that can be written to the
> > > > flash_sync_strobe attribute. Wouldn't splitting this to many attributes
> > > > be an unnecessary inflation of sysfs files?
> > > 
> > > Ok a list of allowed values to write is acceptable, as long as it is not
> > > hard to parse and always is space separated.
> > 
> > Well, this one is list of LED numbers and LED names.
> 
> It'd be nice if these names would match the V4L2 sub-device names. We don't
> have any rules for them other than they must be unique, and there's the
> established practice that an I2C address follows the component name. We're
> about to discuss the matter on Monday on #v4l (11:00 Finnish time), but I
> don't think we can generally guarantee any of the names won't have spaces.
> 
> Separate files, then?

Yes please.
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