On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 10:03:50AM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > > It'd be nice if the driver could provide a parameter to the > > sysfs show() and store() routines... i.e. > > > > static ssize_t show_temp(struct device *dev, char *buf, int param); > > > > DEVICE_ATTR(temp1_input, S_IRUGO, show_temp, NULL, 1) > > DEVICE_ATTR(temp2_input, S_IRUGO, show_temp, NULL, 2) > > DEVICE_ATTR(temp3_input, S_IRUGO, show_temp, NULL, 3) > > Much like what we had in 2.4. And this was Good. But we had multiple values per file, which was not "good" at all :) > > But, I can't see a way to do this without forcing a massive > > rewrite of all sysfs-enabled drivers - oh well. > > Sad but probably true. Still I'd like to hear Greg about what it would > take to do so, and if there is a chance that this happens in 2.7. I really doubt it, as it isn't on my list of things to do, but others might want to see helpers like this, and I always take patches... thanks, greg k-h
