Re: Standard handling of boolean attributes in sysfs.

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>]

On 03/22/11 22:30, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:59:43AM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>> On 03/21/11 20:14, Greg KH wrote:
>>> 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 for the pointer...
>>
>> write_file_bool in fs/debugfs/file.c?  
>>
>> What is there is pretty much what is needed, but it's not a general
>> use function like sysfs_streq. Clearly it would make sense to use
>> what is there as a basis of such a function. 
>>
>> To save others looking it up, the relevant bit is:
>>
>> 	switch (buf[0]) {
>> 	case 'y':
>> 	case 'Y':
>> 	case '1':
>> 		*val = 1;
>> 		break;
>> 	case 'n':
>> 	case 'N':
>> 	case '0':
>> 		*val = 0;
>> 		break;
>> 	}
>>
>> There are a few cut and paste copies of this about (mostly in IIO drivers actually
>> hence why I asking if there is a better way :).
>>
>> Unless there is demand for it elsewhere I'll just add a utility function to the IIO
>> core to do this and we can revisit the case for a general function when the need
>> turns up elsewhere.
> 
> The other function that does this, and is what I was thinking of, is
> param_set_bool().  Care to merge both of these functions together into
> something "sane" and have everyone use it?
Will put out an RFC labeled patch on this and see how it goes down.

Jonathan