From: Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add netdev led trigger
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:06:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101117200614.GK15096@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101117195843.GA31357@elf.ucw.cz>
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 08:58:43PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> I was hoping you'd comment on the ABI itself, too. It uses
>
> echo "foo bar baz" > file
>
> to enable/disable specific events to be "displayed". More traditional
> interface would be
>
> echo disable > file_foo
The main arguments for using the single "mode" file are:
1. that's how it was implemented for OpenWrt, and there's a fair
amount of userland (web admin tools, etc.) that groks it
2. it's only specifying a set of three possible values -- separate
files seem like overkill
--
Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-17 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-14 20:58 [PATCH] add netdev led trigger Eric Cooper
2010-11-15 23:41 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2010-11-17 11:05 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-17 16:09 ` Greg KH
2010-11-17 19:58 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-17 20:01 ` Greg KH
2010-11-17 20:06 ` Eric Cooper [this message]
2010-11-30 19:20 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-30 23:22 ` Eric Cooper
2010-12-01 19:56 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-21 20:53 ` Eric Cooper
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