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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Ben Nizette <bn@niasdigital.com>
Cc: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@freescale.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	hartleys <hartleys@visionengravers.com>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>,
	Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch/rfc 2.6.25-git] gpio: sysfs interface
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:55:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804291455.39674.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1209472526.311.50.camel@moss.renham>

On Tuesday 29 April 2008, Ben Nizette wrote:
> 4) Status quo.  Easy, efficient, potentially hard to discover which gpio
> you actually want.
> 
> My vote's for 1 or 4.  The first one is heavier but easier.  The last
> one will need something like the discussed file mapping ranges to gpios.

My vote is for #4 with a chip listing file.

I don't like the hacked names ... none of the other /sys/class/*/name
files on any of my systems use hacked names.  The entire motivation for
name hacking seems wrong to me, and by observation it's been rejected
for all other class names.

- Dave


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-29 22:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-28 19:39 [patch/rfc 2.6.25-git] gpio: sysfs interface David Brownell
2008-04-28 20:46 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-28 23:28   ` David Brownell
2008-04-29  2:54     ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-29  3:42       ` Greg KH
2008-04-29 18:45         ` David Brownell
2008-04-29 19:09           ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-02 20:36   ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-17 22:14     ` David Brownell
2008-05-18  0:36       ` [patch 2.6.26-rc2-git] " David Brownell
2008-05-20  7:17         ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-18  4:55       ` [patch/rfc 2.6.25-git] " Ben Nizette
2008-05-19 22:39       ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-20  1:26         ` David Brownell
2008-05-20  8:02           ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-28 23:01 ` Ben Nizette
2008-04-29  0:44   ` David Brownell
2008-04-29  1:58     ` Ben Nizette
2008-04-29  3:44       ` David Brownell
2008-04-29  4:47         ` Ben Nizette
2008-04-29 21:28           ` David Brownell
2008-04-29  6:17         ` Trent Piepho
2008-04-29 22:39           ` David Brownell
2008-04-28 23:09 ` Trent Piepho
2008-04-29  0:45   ` David Brownell
2008-04-29  5:48     ` Trent Piepho
2008-04-29 12:35       ` Ben Nizette
2008-04-29 18:15         ` Trent Piepho
2008-04-29 21:56           ` David Brownell
2008-04-30  0:49             ` Trent Piepho
2008-04-30 17:49               ` David Brownell
2008-04-29 21:55         ` David Brownell [this message]
2008-04-29 23:29           ` Ben Nizette
2008-04-30  1:04             ` David Brownell
2008-04-30  2:08               ` Ben Nizette
2008-04-30  3:13                 ` Trent Piepho
2008-04-30 10:33                   ` Ben Nizette
2008-04-30 17:42                 ` David Brownell
2008-04-30 21:34                   ` [patch/rfc 2.6.25-git v2] " David Brownell
2008-04-30 22:47                     ` Trent Piepho
2008-04-30 23:14                       ` Ben Nizette
2008-05-01  2:12                         ` David Brownell
2008-05-01  2:08                       ` David Brownell
2008-05-01  3:41                         ` Trent Piepho
2008-05-01  4:35                           ` David Brownell
2008-05-01 21:16                             ` Trent Piepho
2008-05-03  2:58                               ` David Brownell
2008-05-03  3:05                               ` David Brownell
2008-04-30 23:28                     ` Ben Nizette
2008-05-01 21:40                       ` David Brownell
2008-04-29  0:47   ` [patch/rfc 2.6.25-git] " Ben Nizette

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