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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: Standard handling of boolean attributes in sysfs.
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:14:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110321201411.GA1704@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D87AEE0.8000807@cam.ac.uk>

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 08:02:40PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Just wondering what the feeling would be about having
> a utility function similar to sysfs_streq to provide a
> consistent option for all those sysfs attributes out there
> where
> 
> 1, on, true -> 1
> 0, off, false -> 0
> 
> Or does such a beast already exist and I'm just being unobservant?

We have the one in debugfs that I think people use for sysfs.  Have you
looked at that?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-21 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-21 20:02 Standard handling of boolean attributes in sysfs Jonathan Cameron
2011-03-21 20:14 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-03-22 10:59   ` Jonathan Cameron
2011-03-22 22:30     ` Greg KH
2011-03-23 10:53       ` Jonathan Cameron

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