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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org,
	chrisv@cyberswitching.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	michael.hennerich@analog.com
Subject: Re: [Uclinux-dist-devel] [PATCH] ad525x_dpot: new driver for AD525x digital potentiometers
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:27:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090929182746.245afa74.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8bd0f97a0909291814l2de1f989lcf640633cf25b9c8@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:14:37 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> wrote:

> > + __ __ __ if (reg & AD525X_REG_TOL)
> > + __ __ __ __ __ __ __ return sprintf(buf, "0x%04x\n", value & 0xFFFF);
> > + __ __ __ else
> > + __ __ __ __ __ __ __ return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", value & data->rdac_mask);
> >
> > which makes me suspect that the proposed userspace interface is quite
> > poor.
> 
> not really.

Think so.  We have a sysfs file which under some circumstances will
return a decimal number and which under others will return a hex
number.  So userspace is supposed to look for the leading 0x to work
out how to interpret that number?

Or something.  Whatever.  Perhaps it all makes sense when one has seen
the overall description.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-30  1:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-17  4:22 [PATCH] ad525x_dpot: new driver for AD525x digital potentiometers Mike Frysinger
2009-09-29 22:39 ` Andrew Morton
2009-09-30  1:14   ` [Uclinux-dist-devel] " Mike Frysinger
2009-09-30  1:27     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-09-30  1:44       ` Mike Frysinger
2009-10-02  0:53 ` [PATCH v2] " Mike Frysinger

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