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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: looking for simple module/driver programming examples in source tree
Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 07:11:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110503141132.GA8056@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1105030942020.9448@localhost6.localdomain6>

On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 09:44:47AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> p.s.  on that note, of course, i'm interested in really simple
> examples of drivers that create increasingly complex collections of
> sysfs attr files.  i *really* like to explain stuff like this by being
> able to point at existing drivers in the tree.

Any of the sensor drivers would be good examples of this, they create
loads of sysfs files.

Also please explain that _any_ new sysfs or file that is added, a
corresponding Documentation/ABI/ file needs to be also added.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-03 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-03 11:45 looking for simple module/driver programming examples in source tree Robert P. J. Day
2011-05-03 12:28 ` Greg KH
2011-05-03 12:38   ` Robert P. J. Day
2011-05-03 12:54     ` Greg KH
2011-05-03 12:59       ` Robert P. J. Day
2011-05-03 13:39         ` Mandeep Sandhu
2011-05-03 13:44           ` Robert P. J. Day
2011-05-03 13:51             ` Mandeep Sandhu
2011-05-03 14:11             ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-05-03 14:20   ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2011-05-03 14:44     ` anish singh

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