linux-kernel - Re: How to document dimension units for virtual files?

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Date:	Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:53:36 +0900
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Michael Holzheu <HOLZHEU@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@...eria.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mschwid2@...ibm.com, pavel@....cz
Subject: Re: How to document dimension units for virtual files?

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 07:27:56PM +0100, Michael Holzheu wrote:
> If you want to export data to userspace via a virtual filesystem
> like sysfs, the following rules are recommended:

Um, does this mean you expect us to change all of the currently existing
sysfs file names?  And people get mad at me when I just move sysfs
symlinks around...

Look at the hwmon drivers, and the documentation in
Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface for a description of how we have
been documenting this already.

In short, I don't really think we need to encode the units in the file
name, somehow we have done pretty well without it so far :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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