Re: [linux-pm] [RFC] PM_QOS api update to use handles 1/5

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Jan 06 2010 - 14:18:47 EST


Hi!

> > Umm.. passing binary numbers like that... is not exactly good
> > interface. Think endianness issues when writing to it from high-level
> > language.
>
> yeah. At the moment I can't recall why I went binary for the ABI,
> we can revisit this, but its been in the wild for a few years now :(
>
> I guess I can do some tricks to see if its a hex string representation
> of a number and parse that as well as supporting the s32. i.e. accept
> strings "0x0000000" ... "0xFFFFFFFF" and return -EINVAL for anything
> else.

Maybe you could use length for detection? If they are writing 4 bytes,
it is s32, 10 bytes means ascii?
Pavel
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