Re: [linux-pm] [RFC] PM_QOS api update to use handles 1/5

[mark gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 08:18:31PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > Umm.. passing binary numbers like that... is not exactly good
> > > interface. Think endianness issues  when writing to it from high-level
> > > language.
> > 
> > yeah.  At the moment I can't recall why I went binary for the ABI, 
> > we can revisit this, but its been in the wild for a few years now :(
> > 
> > I guess I can do some tricks to see if its a hex string representation
> > of a number and parse that as well as supporting the s32.  i.e. accept
> > strings "0x0000000" ... "0xFFFFFFFF" and return -EINVAL for anything
> > else.
> 
> Maybe you could use length for detection? If they are writing 4 bytes,
> it is s32, 10 bytes means ascii?

That is what I was thinking + making sure the chars in the string where
valid hex digits ;)  It would be easy to do.  Let me know if you think I
should attempt to roll that into the kernel ABI exposed by this thing.

--mgross