Am Samstag, 28. August 2010, 23:01:54 schrieb Alan Stern: > On Sat, 28 Aug 2010, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > Am Freitag, 27. August 2010, 17:36:53 schrieb Alan Stern: > > It seems to me that the standard for /sys is to use miliseconds. > > "45 minutes" expressed in milliseconds isn't very easy to comprehend; > it comes out as "2700000". Compare this to "45:00.000". I'm not sure > that's the best way to go. But that is the decision that has been made for all other fields. The simple number is easy to process for a programm. Thus the compromise has been made. It is better to keep all attribute files in the same format. > > And that seems to be reasonable. We'd fare better with a second > > field and to truncate the output on the old field. > > I don't understand. You mean a second field in the same file? What > would that field contain? And what do you mean by "truncate the output > on the old field"? An example or two would help. I mean we should have two files. The existing attribute expressing the delay in seconds and a new attribute expressing it in miliseconds. They should refer to the same value, the legacy field being a truncated version of the new field. > Besides, doesn't this violate the "one file, one value" rule for sysfs? I'd say this is an implication going only one way. Regards Oliver -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
