linux-kernel - Re: Standard handling of boolean attributes in sysfs.

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Message-ID: <20110321201411.GA1704@kroah.com>
Date:	Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:14:11 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@....ac.uk>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
Subject: Re: Standard handling of boolean attributes in sysfs.

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 08:02:40PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Just wondering what the feeling would be about having
> a utility function similar to sysfs_streq to provide a
> consistent option for all those sysfs attributes out there
> where
> 
> 1, on, true -> 1
> 0, off, false -> 0
> 
> Or does such a beast already exist and I'm just being unobservant?

We have the one in debugfs that I think people use for sysfs.  Have you
looked at that?

thanks,

greg k-h
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