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From: Greg KH <greg-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eeprom: add non-cached sysfs read access to EEPROM data
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 16:39:49 -0700
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On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 04:15:00PM -0700, Petri Gynther wrote:
> Add "eeprom-nc" sysfs attribute to provide non-cached read access
> to EEPROM data. This is needed because some EEPROM-like devices
> contain constantly changing real-time diagnostic data that cannot
> be cached in kernel memory.

How are we going to know which attribute to use?

For all new sysfs attributes, you have to add a Documentation/ABI/ file
as well, care to do that here?

thanks,

greg k-h