linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Re: Battery class driver.

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Message-ID: <20061028185244.GC5152@ucw.cz>
Date:	Sat, 28 Oct 2006 18:52:44 +0000
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	David Zeuthen <davidz@...hat.com>
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Shem Multinymous <multinymous@...il.com>,
	Richard Hughes <hughsient@...il.com>,
	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...top.org, sfr@...b.auug.org.au, len.brown@...el.com,
	greg@...ah.com, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
	linux-thinkpad mailing list <linux-thinkpad@...ux-thinkpad.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Re: Battery class driver.

Hi!
> > If it makes enough sense that it's worth exporting it to userspace at
> > all, then it can go into battery.h.
> 
> If it's non-standard please make sure to prefix the name with something
> unique e.g.
> 
>  x_thinkpad_charging_inhibit [1]

> to avoid collisions, e.g. two drivers using the same name but the

You were clearly exposed to harmful dose of smtp.

This is ugly, and unneccessary: kernel is centrally controlled. We
*will* want to merge such attributes into something standard.

							Pavel
-- 
Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.
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