On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 14:10 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 19 April 2011, Tony Olech wrote: > > The purpose of this read-only interface is for VUB300 support > > staff to obtain information from our customers. Our customers > > are not like the people on this list. If you have ever tried > > to do telephone support you would appreciate the difficulty > > of getting a non-technical person to first of all find the > > log files and then to extract the correct lines. It therefore > > follows that if the 1 or 4 bit mode is useful info for the > > VUB300 support staff, then this read-only interface is the > > appropriate single place for it to be provided. The overhead > > of providing such an interface is negligible and the existance > > of such an interface demonstrates that linux is no longer > > designed only for geeks. > > Wrong answer. > > You are missing the point. Sysfs is not the place where you can > put random interfaces you want for you own needs. By adding > files there, you create a support burden for everyone who now > has to maintain backwards-compatibility. > > You cannot seriously ask for inclusion of a kernel interface > just to fit the use of your support team at the expense of > everyone else. > > Please remove the sysfs attributes from the driver before resubmitting. > We can have a separate discussion about core interfaces that will > help everyone and that are consistent with how Linux kernels are > supported. > > Arnd You have not answered my points. If linux is to move from the preserve of geeks, then support is an issue. What is wrong in wanting to support non-technical users? Especially since there are no backward compatible issues involved at all. Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
