Hi Steve, On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:28:51 +0000, Steve Hardy wrote: > > As far as I know boolean parameters take values 0 and 1, not N and Y. > > Not on the systems I am testing on (2.6.24-rc6) - the sysfs interface > displays boolean parameters as Y/N, and will accept boot parameters as > either Y/N or 0/1. Below is a snippet from a test proving this point : > > test at shtest:~$ cat /sys/module/ads7828/parameters/se_input > Y > test at shtest:~$ cat /sys/module/ads7828/parameters/int_vref > Y > > after appending the ads7828.int_vref=N parameter to the kernel > command-line : > > Linux 2.6.24-rc6 (shtest) (16:53 on Saturday, 05 January 2002) > > login: test > test at shtest:~$ cat /sys/module/ads7828/parameters/int_vref > N Oh. This is news to me, thanks for the information. > Is it more "correct" to refer to 1/0 in the documentation? > I just naturally used the same syntax provided by the sysfs nodes Nah, just scratch this comment of mine, I just didn't know that Y/N was working for booleans. If you prefer that to document that form that's alright with me. (I do believe that it was a mistake to allow two different ways to do the same thing, but that's a different issue.) -- Jean Delvare
