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Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 15:08:31 -0800 (PST)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: segher@...nel.crashing.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...top.org, dmk@...x.com,
wmb@...mworks.com, hch@...radead.org, jg@...top.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem
From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 18:48:33 +0100
> If you *really* want (the option of) showing things as text
> in the filesystem, you better make it so that there is a
> one-to-one translation back to binary. For example, what
> does this mean, is it a text string or two bytes:
>
> 01.02
>
> Yes you as a user can guess, but scripts can't (reliably).
We have some extensive code in fs/openpromfs/inode.c that
determines whether a property is text or not. I can't
guarentee it works %100, but it's very context dependant
(only the driver "knows") but it works for all the cases
I've tried.
I really think you're making a mountain out of a mole hill, to be
honest :-)
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