On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Scott E. Preece wrote: > --===============26103097005026354== > > > My inclination would be to have the sysfs interface know generic terms, > with the implementation mapping them to device-specific terms. It ought > to be possible to build portable tools that don't have to know about > device-specific states and have the device interfaces (in sysfs) do the > necessary translation. Userspace should do the translation. You should give the user the ability to specify simple, meaningful states, like "on" and "off". But, it should be the tools itself that are mapping those requests to valid input for the sysfs files. Why force the translation into the kernel, and provide more opportunities for error in parsing the sysfs files? Do it in userspace, and you can afford much more flexibility and portability. Thanks, Patrick
