Messages in this thread | | | From | David Brownell <> | Subject | Re: [patch/rfc 2.6.25-git] gpio: sysfs interface | Date | Mon, 19 May 2008 18:26:18 -0700 |
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On Monday 19 May 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > > What about mkdir gpio-N to export it? > > > > Ugh. That would create way more complication than I want > > to see here. I thought about that early on, and decided > > that was Not The Way To Go. > > ...but it would be consistent with configfs... and face it... doing > echo > file to make a directory is seriously ugly.
This isn't configfs, and I didn't happen to notice any polite way for sysfs users to intercept "mkdir", parse the relevant directory name, reject illegal names, and pre-populate the just-created directory with relevant contents.
Were you implying it should go into configfs? If so, do you maybe have an update to the patch I sent a day or so ago?
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