Re: [PATCH 0/5] I8K driver facelift

From: Frank Sorenson
Date: Thu Mar 17 2005 - 04:47:02 EST


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Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
| Hrm, can we be a little more explicit and not poke in the sysfs guts right
| in the driver? What do you think about the patch below athat implements
| "attribute arrays"? And I am attaching cumulative i8k patch using these
| arrays so they can be tested.

Also, with power_status being a module parameter defaulting to 0/off, we
can leave out the device_create_file for the i8k_power_status_attr. No
need to expose it in sysfs if it will always return -EIO.

Frank
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Frank Sorenson - KD7TZK
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Brigham Young University
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