Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Input: synaptics - add sysfs access to firmwareID & board ID

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Sat Jul 07 2012 - 21:16:49 EST


On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 03:08:48PM +0200, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 05:07:17PM +0800, Daniel Kurtz wrote:
> > Allow userspace to query firmware ID and board ID, which are read and
> > cached during device initialization.
> >
> > This information can be read, for instance, by a userspace feedback
> > reporting tool, to include this information in its reports.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> Still reluctant here, but I am fine with whatever Dmitry thinks about it.

I do not think we need to have additional attributes - reporting
tools will collect kernel logs so since your previous change dumps the
data there that is all we need.

Thanks.

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Dmitry
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