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From: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@attbi.com>
To: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: the userspace side of driverfs
Date: 11 Sep 2002 13:05:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1031774732.1499.1.camel@entropy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <almpmt$rmi$1@ncc1701.cistron.net>

On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 00:00, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> If you have multiple values per file, why not make it a directory with
> multiple files in it, each with one value per file.
> 

But subdirectories are child devices. Having array directories and
device directories would complicate the apps that have to parse this
data.
 
- Nicholas


  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-11 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-11  1:18 the userspace side of driverfs Nicholas Miell
2002-09-11  2:16 ` Greg KH
2002-09-11  4:38 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-09-11  4:52   ` Nicholas Miell
2002-09-11  7:00   ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2002-09-11 20:05     ` Nicholas Miell [this message]
2002-09-12  1:25   ` jw schultz
2002-09-12  4:13     ` Matt Domsch
2002-09-12  5:11       ` jw schultz
2002-09-12 16:41         ` Patrick Mochel

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