Am Sonntag 08 April 2007 20:56 schrieb Hans de Goede: > > > > Good point. Anyway, most sensor drivers have no way of knowing which of > > their inputs are actually used. The LM93 driver I'm currently working on > > is a monster that creates about 160 (!) sysfs files. I don't find it easy > > to judge what's worse, having a few unused sysfs files or a large table > > in kernel space. > > Only 160? My abituguru 1/2 driver creates 177 for my motherboard and even > more on some others (it can detect used versus unused inputs). And the > abituguru3 driver can create 230 with known motherboards, and if i wouldn't > use the table approach it would create 384 entries. Sorry I'm bragging here > I couldn't help myself, and hopefully this also makes it even clearer why I > went with the table approach. > > Also notice that the table (except for the used entry) could be made so > that it is freed after module initialisation (currently it isn't). > That's not bragging... I thank you for your explanations! Cheers, Hans
