Re: [PATCH 2.6.8.1 0/2] leds: new class for led devices
From: John Lenz
Date: Mon Sep 06 2004 - 02:41:15 EST
On 09/04/04 16:41:11, Pavel Machek wrote:
> What next? One sysfs node plus attributes per GPIO line? How about
> we do one sysfs node per virtual memory bit so people can control
> anything in their system on a bit granularity without needing mmap
> or any other interfaces? When does this madness stop?
GPIO lines are obviously system specific, I guess they could go to
/proc or be controlled via ioctl()... But that was attempt at
universal LED interface, right?
Yep. As well, the GPIO interface proposed by Robert Schwebel should be
kept seperate... I don't see a reason or anything useful from unifying
them.
John
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