linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 2/9] misc: Support Asus Transformer's EC access device

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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 14:40:43 +0200
From: Svyatoslav Ryhel <clamor95@...il.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, 
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>, Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, 
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@...nel.org>, 
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>, 
	Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>, 
	Ion Agorria <ion@...rria.com>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-leds@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/9] misc: Support Asus Transformer's EC access device

вт, 3 лют. 2026 р. о 18:58 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> пише:
>
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2026 at 06:50:01PM +0200, Svyatoslav Ryhel wrote:
> > > debugfs allows you to do much much more than simple stuff like
> > > BIN_ATTR_RW().  Go wild there, but don't put debugging stuff in sysfs,
> > > that is NOT what it is there for at all, but rather, that is exactly
> > > what debugfs is for.
> > >
> >
> > I am removing said stuff from sysfs, that is not what I am asking.
> > Debugs does not allow to upload register values in a form of binary
> > block. It allows only dumping via debugfs_create_blob or
> > debugfs_create_regset32 but not writing. If you know examples of
> > reading and writing register sets as binary data, please point me to
> > it.
>
> You can easily write your own given that debugfs allows you to use what
> ever file operations you want to use for a file.  Why not just use that?
>
> > I am asking if it is possible only to preserve dockram_read/write
> > functions in the code, without exposing it to sysfs.
>
> Why would you want to do that?
>

Nevermind, everything is good. I have figured it out hopefully.

> confused,
>
> greg k-h