linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] enhance sysfs rfkill interface

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Message-ID: <20100225233516.GD5218@khazad-dum.debian.net>
Date:	Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:35:16 -0300
From:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
To:	florian@...kler.org
Cc:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@...fmail.co.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] enhance sysfs rfkill interface

On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, florian@...kler.org wrote:
> /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/hw: (ro)
> 	hardblock kill state
> /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/sw: (rw)
> 	softblock kill state
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org>
> ---
> 
> I am not shure about those names.

I don't like them.  IMHO, you don't gain anything by being this terse, and
it is difficult to understand what they mean at first glance.

> Other alternatives: 
> [hs]w_block
> block_[hs]w

Any of those would be good, IMHO.  As would be more verbose variants like:
hardware_blocked, software_blocked, etc.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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