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Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:22:33 -0800
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On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:38:18 -0500
Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com> wrote:

> Add new sysfs attributes.

One would like to see documentation updates along with sysfs API
updates.  But one fears that this entire interface wasn't documented
anyway :(

Please at least fully describe the proposed interface in the changelog
so others can review the proposal.

The proposed new sysfs files appear to break the
one-value-per-sysfs-file rule.