From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-acpi" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 1/2] introduce ALS sysfs class
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 23:12:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200909022312.58494.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090901134144.GA2028@ucw.cz>
On Tuesday 01 September 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > > > IMO, 0 and -1 are not errors. they just suggest that the Ambient Light
> > > > illuminance is beyond the device support range, while the device is
> > > > still working normally.
> > > > what about exporting these values (0 and -1) to user space directly?
> > >
> > > Returning 0 for "below" range and 99999999 for "above" range would be
> > > nice, yes.
> >
> > Why not 0 and "all ones" or 0 and -1.
> >
> > Is there anything wrong with -1 in particular?
>
> Normal people expect -1 to be less than 123, and output is in ascii. If
> you make it ((unsigned) ~0) I guess that becomes acceptable.
Well, "-1" is a perfectly valid alphanumerical representation of an int.
I don't really see the problem with the "-", unless we're talking about some
broken user space, that is.
Rafael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-02 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-01 7:25 [PATCH V6 1/2] introduce ALS sysfs class Zhang Rui
2009-09-01 8:11 ` Pavel Machek
2009-09-01 8:30 ` Zhang Rui
2009-09-01 8:43 ` Pavel Machek
2009-09-01 18:47 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-09-01 13:41 ` Pavel Machek
2009-09-02 21:12 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2009-09-02 21:14 ` Pavel Machek
2009-09-02 21:46 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-09-02 21:51 ` Pavel Machek
2009-09-03 0:16 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-09-03 2:35 ` Zhang Rui
2009-09-03 8:45 ` Pavel Machek
2009-09-03 21:13 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-09-03 8:43 ` Pavel Machek
2009-09-03 21:10 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-09-02 19:22 ` Alan Jenkins
2009-09-03 2:45 ` Zhang Rui
2009-09-03 8:35 ` Alan Jenkins
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