From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sensors@Stimpy.netroedge.com,
hunold@convergence.de
Subject: Re: [RFC][2.6] Additional i2c adapter flags for i2c client isolation
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 21:05:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040317210504.34eb192f.khali@linux-fr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040317174255.GE19060@kroah.com>
> > How would we export the value though? Numerical, with user-space
> > headers to be included by user-space applications? Or converted to
> > some explicit text strings so that no headers are needed?
>
> A text string would be simple enough to use.
I'm not sure. What about a chip driver that would belong to more than
one class? What about the eeprom driver which will belong to all
classes? With a numeric value, a simple binary operation handles all
the cases. With text strings we would end having to parse a possibly
multi-valued string, and do string comparisons, with at least one
exception to handle. This is likely to require much more resources,
don't you think?
--
Jean Delvare
http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-17 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-16 9:25 [RFC][2.6] Additional i2c adapter flags for i2c client isolation Michael Hunold
2004-03-16 13:26 ` Adrian Cox
2004-03-16 14:23 ` Michael Hunold
2004-03-16 15:44 ` Greg KH
2004-03-16 19:14 ` Jean Delvare
2004-03-16 19:53 ` Greg KH
2004-03-17 9:17 ` Jean Delvare
2004-03-17 17:42 ` Greg KH
2004-03-17 20:05 ` Jean Delvare [this message]
2004-03-17 23:11 ` Greg KH
2004-03-18 15:56 ` Michael Hunold
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