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Date:	Sat, 7 Jul 2012 18:16:21 -0700
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@...omail.se>
Cc:	Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org>,
	Alessandro Rubini <rubini@...vis.unipv.it>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Benson Leung <bleung@...omium.org>,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Input: synaptics - add sysfs access to firmware
 ID & board ID

On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 03:08:48PM +0200, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 05:07:17PM +0800, Daniel Kurtz wrote:
> > Allow userspace to query firmware ID and board ID, which are read and
> > cached during device initialization.
> > 
> > This information can be read, for instance, by a userspace feedback
> > reporting tool, to include this information in its reports.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c |   41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> Still reluctant here, but I am fine with whatever Dmitry thinks about it.

I do not think we need to have additional attributes - reporting
tools will collect kernel logs so since your previous change dumps the
data there that is all we need.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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