netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 08/13] QLogic VNIC: sysfs interface implementation for the driver

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Message-ID: <ada7id7685e.fsf@cisco.com>
Date:	Sat, 31 May 2008 22:46:05 -0700
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Ramachandra K <ramachandra.kuchimanchi@...gic.com>,
	general@...ts.openfabrics.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	poornima.kamath@...gic.com, amar.mudrankit@...gic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 08/13] QLogic VNIC: sysfs interface implementation for the driver

 > And yes, multiple values per sysfs file are not allowed, sorry, please
 > change this.  If you need to configure your device through an interface
 > like this, consider using configfs instead, that is what it is there
 > for.

Makes sense... I know that the SRP initiator uses the method of multiple
'token=<value>' entries passed into sysfs, but the excuse is that SRP
was merged before configfs.

I'll also have a look at adding configfs support to SRP and deprecating
the current sysfs method...

 - R.
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