Re: [PATCH] w1: Add 1-wire slave device driver for DS28E04-100

Evgeniy Polyakov
2012-05-10T00:43:54Z

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 05:01:26PM -0700, Greg KH (greg@kroah.com) wrote:
> Binary sysfs files should be "pass through" only, the kernel should not
> touch the data involved in them at all, it is a pipe directly from the
> kernel to userspace for binary blob data, like firmware images. You
> should never do any processing of any binary file data at all in the
> kernel.

And if some of the data should be somehow changed, what interfact should
be used? Also, Markus, does DS28E04 change written/read data when doing
IO?

I must admit, I never heared that binary sysfs files have to follow this
constraint.

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Evgeniy Polyakov