Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] simple sysfs wrappers for single values

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sat Aug 29 2020 - 21:23:23 EST


On Sat, 2020-08-29 at 17:28 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2020-08-30 at 00:37 +0100, Alex Dewar wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've noticed there seems to have been a fair amount of discussion around
> > the subject of possible helper methods for use in the context of sysfs
> > show methods (which I haven't had a chance to go through in detail yet
> > -- sorry!), so I thought I'd send out a couple of patches I've been
> > working on for this, in case it's of any interest to anyone.
>
> If you really want to do this, I suggest you get use
> wrappers like sysfs_emit_string, sysfs_emit_int, sysfs_emit_u64
> though I don't see _that_ much value.

Just fyi:

the treewide converted sysfs_emit uses
end up with these integer outputs:

$ git grep -P -oh 'sysfs_emit\(buf, "%\d*[luixd]*\\n"' | \
sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
1482 sysfs_emit(buf, "%d\n"
549 sysfs_emit(buf, "%u\n"
118 sysfs_emit(buf, "%ld\n"
100 sysfs_emit(buf, "%lu\n"
78 sysfs_emit(buf, "%llu\n"
62 sysfs_emit(buf, "%i\n"
47 sysfs_emit(buf, "%x\n"
24 sysfs_emit(buf, "%lld\n"
12 sysfs_emit(buf, "%llx\n"
12 sysfs_emit(buf, "%08x\n"
12 sysfs_emit(buf, "%02x\n"
10 sysfs_emit(buf, "%016llx\n"
8 sysfs_emit(buf, "%04x\n"
6 sysfs_emit(buf, "%lx\n"
5 sysfs_emit(buf, "%02d\n"
4 sysfs_emit(buf, "%04d\n"
2 sysfs_emit(buf, "%08lx\n"
1 sysfs_emit(buf, "%li\n"
1 sysfs_emit(buf, "%4x\n"
1 sysfs_emit(buf, "%0x\n"
1 sysfs_emit(buf, "%06x\n"
1 sysfs_emit(buf, "%03x\n"
1 sysfs_emit(buf, "%01x\n"
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