Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:41:56 -0600 | Subject | Re: Purpose of parameter in sysfs binary read | From | "Rick L. Vinyard, Jr." <> |
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Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:55:29AM -0600, Rick L. Vinyard, Jr. wrote: > What are you using the binary sysfs attribute for? It should ONLY be > used as a pass-through to and from hardware, with no interpretation by > the kernel at all.
It's for the Logitech G13's game panel image (a simple binary bitmap of the pixels).
It doesn't do any interpretation... just a few checks on the magic number and size.
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