On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Patrick Mochel wrote:
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> > It is really nice, but it's too much for the common case. The goal is to
> > have each file export one and only one value. Setting up an iterator is
> > overkill for one value.
>
> You don't have to use the iterator side of that.
Well, I'll be...
I like the seq_ stuff, and the ->read() side of things take care of the
issues discussed in this thread. What's even nicer is that if I convert to
that, driver callbacks become something like either:
int driver_show(struct device * dev, struct seq_file * m)
or
int driver_show(struct device * dev, char * buf)
Have you considered doing write()?
-pat
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