Re: [patch] Move led attributes out of device name and into sysfs attributes, was Re: LED devices

[Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 11:02 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> There were some other opinions voiced including one from the person
> who started this discussion.
> 
> So no, the people who write the tools that parse sysfs (like HAL.)
> don't appreciate this.
> 
> People who write tools that parse sysfs like shell scripts don't
> appreciate it either, as I illustrated.

>From a hal point of view, we don't care if the device name is 'led01' or
'light_to_dance_the_fandango' and from a shell point of view it's
probably best for the latter. I think the point Greg tried to make is
that it shouldn't matter, and HAL shouldn't export (nor parse) the
device name as anything sensible.

> You've yet to give any technical reason why we can't have meaningful
> busids rather than random numbers. Your entire argument seems to be
> that its wrong because its a bit different and nobody else does it...

If it's a trivial name then I think led_thinklight0 is perfectly okay, I
think Kay was talking more about the attribute vs. name-in-device
encoding.

Richard.