From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:57:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH/RFC v1 0/2] Human readable performance event description in sysfs In-Reply-To: <1263978706-15499-1-git-send-email-t.fujak@samsung.com> References: <1263978706-15499-1-git-send-email-t.fujak@samsung.com> Message-ID: <20100120095757.GA20302@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:11:44AM +0100, Tomasz Fujak wrote: > The following patches provide a sysfs entry with hardware event human > readable description in the form of "0x%llx\t%lld-%lld\t%s\t%s" % > (event_value, minval, maxval, name, description) I think your patch is in violation of this from Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt: Attributes ~~~~~~~~~ ... Attributes should be ASCII text files, preferably with only one value per file. It is noted that it may not be efficient to contain only one value per file, so it is socially acceptable to express an array of values of the same type. Mixing types, expressing multiple lines of data, and doing fancy formatting of data is heavily frowned upon. Doing these things may get you publically humiliated and your code rewritten without notice.