linux-kernel - Re: [patch] Move led attributes out of device name and into sysfs attributes, was Re: LED devices

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Message-Id: <1182854798.16516.5.camel@work>
Date:	Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:46:38 +0100
From:	Richard Hughes <hughsient@...il.com>
To:	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...nedhand.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kay.sievers" <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	"Bryn M. Reeves" <breeves@...hat.com>, John Lenz <lenz@...wisc.edu>
Subject: Re: [patch] Move led attributes out of device name and into sysfs
	attributes, was Re: LED devices

On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 11:02 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> There were some other opinions voiced including one from the person
> who started this discussion.
> 
> So no, the people who write the tools that parse sysfs (like HAL.)
> don't appreciate this.
> 
> People who write tools that parse sysfs like shell scripts don't
> appreciate it either, as I illustrated.

>>From a hal point of view, we don't care if the device name is 'led01' or
'light_to_dance_the_fandango' and from a shell point of view it's
probably best for the latter. I think the point Greg tried to make is
that it shouldn't matter, and HAL shouldn't export (nor parse) the
device name as anything sensible.

> You've yet to give any technical reason why we can't have meaningful
> busids rather than random numbers. Your entire argument seems to be
> that its wrong because its a bit different and nobody else does it...

If it's a trivial name then I think led_thinklight0 is perfectly okay, I
think Kay was talking more about the attribute vs. name-in-device
encoding.

Richard.


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