anyone using "sysfsutils" in a practical way?

anyone using "sysfsutils" in a practical way?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  as i'm reviewing the courseware i'll be teaching in a couple weeks,
i'm making notes as to what should go, what should stay and what
should be added to bring it entirely up to date.

  i'm going to de-emphasize proc files, other than to show some
examples in the fs/proc/ directory if students want to hack up a
couple simple ones for their drivers, knowing that they're not meant
to be permanent.

  and i want to more emphasize kobjects and sysfs.  to that end, i'm
aware of the "sysfsutils" package, although i haven't used it yet.  is
anyone familiar with it, to the point they're *using* it for useful
things, as opposed to just playing with it?  i'll probably get around
to checking it out this weekend, just curious as to how i'd promote
its use if/when the time comes.  thanks.

rday

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anyone using "sysfsutils" in a practical way?

[Manohar Vanga]

Possibly off-topic but Alessandro Rubini has uploaded a set of small sample
drivers (among other things) at:

http://gnudd.com/workdoc.shtml

Maybe there is something of interest in there for your course?

Thanks

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>wrote:

>
>  as i'm reviewing the courseware i'll be teaching in a couple weeks,
> i'm making notes as to what should go, what should stay and what
> should be added to bring it entirely up to date.
>
>  i'm going to de-emphasize proc files, other than to show some
> examples in the fs/proc/ directory if students want to hack up a
> couple simple ones for their drivers, knowing that they're not meant
> to be permanent.
>
>  and i want to more emphasize kobjects and sysfs.  to that end, i'm
> aware of the "sysfsutils" package, although i haven't used it yet.  is
> anyone familiar with it, to the point they're *using* it for useful
> things, as opposed to just playing with it?  i'll probably get around
> to checking it out this weekend, just curious as to how i'd promote
> its use if/when the time comes.  thanks.
>
> rday
>
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>
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anyone using "sysfsutils" in a practical way?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 6 May 2011, Manohar Vanga wrote:

> Possibly off-topic but Alessandro Rubini has uploaded a set of small
> sample drivers (among other things) at:
>
> http://gnudd.com/workdoc.shtml
>
> Maybe there is something of interest in there for your course?

  ah, i was entirely unaware of that site, thanks.

rday

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anyone using "sysfsutils" in a practical way?

[Greg KH]

On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 10:25:08AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   and i want to more emphasize kobjects and sysfs.  to that end, i'm
> aware of the "sysfsutils" package, although i haven't used it yet.

It's obsolete, and doesn't work on modern kernels, please never use it.

Use libudev instead if you want access to sysfs data for devices.

thanks,

greg k-h

anyone using "sysfsutils" in a practical way?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 6 May 2011, Greg KH wrote:

> On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 10:25:08AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   and i want to more emphasize kobjects and sysfs.  to that end, i'm
> > aware of the "sysfsutils" package, although i haven't used it yet.
>
> It's obsolete, and doesn't work on modern kernels, please never use it.
>
> Use libudev instead if you want access to sysfs data for devices.

  ok, good to know, thanks.

rday

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