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From: Tim Jansen <tim@tjansen.de>
To: Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /proc format (was Device Registry (DevReg) Patch 0.2.0)
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 00:46:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01042600463900.01143@cookie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200104252116.QAA46520@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>
In-Reply-To: <200104252116.QAA46520@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>

On Wednesday 25 April 2001 23:16, you wrote:
> Not necessarily. If the "extended data" is put following the current data
> (since the data is currently record oriented) just making the output
> format longer will not/should not casue problems in reading the data.
> Alternatively, you can always put one value per record:
> 	tag:value
> 	tag2:value2...

Both solutions only work for simple data, they dont help for more complex 
things like adding a variable-sized list of structures. Actually the first 
devreg version used something like your second proposal and I gave it up 
because it wasnt flexible enough to add USB configuration data. 

bye...


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-04-25 22:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-25 17:10 Device Registry (DevReg) Patch 0.2.0 Dan Kegel
2001-04-25 18:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-04-25 18:55 ` /proc format (was Device Registry (DevReg) Patch 0.2.0) Tim Jansen
2001-04-25 19:19   ` Dan Kegel
2001-04-25 23:09     ` Tim Jansen
2001-04-25 19:37   ` Jesse Pollard
2001-04-25 20:08     ` Dan Kegel
2001-04-25 20:40     ` Tim Jansen
2001-04-25 21:16       ` Jesse Pollard
2001-04-25 21:50         ` J . A . Magallon
2001-04-25 21:58           ` Doug McNaught
2001-04-25 22:03             ` J . A . Magallon
2001-04-25 22:24               ` Marko Kreen
2001-04-25 22:42               ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-25 22:24             ` Mark Hahn
2001-04-26 14:06               ` Tim Jansen
2001-04-25 22:46         ` Tim Jansen [this message]
     [not found] <200104252056.PAA44995@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>
2001-04-25 21:10 ` Dan Kegel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-26  1:09 Dan Kegel

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