Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/2] introduce ALS sysfs class

[Pavel Machek]

On Tue 2009-09-22 13:42:23, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> Zhang Rui wrote:
> > Hi, Jonathan,
> > 
> > this is the refresh ALS sysfs class driver.
> > I just introduced one sysfs attribute "illuminance", because
> > I didn't catch the exact meaning of the others like "???infrared".
> > So it would be great if you can generate an incremental patch
> > to introduce the other optional attributes needed, and update
> > the documentation as well. :)
> Will do, though may just leave it out of first pass of drivers
> (as it may be controversial and it would be nice to get something
> in place before the arguments begin!)
> 
> All looks nice and clean. The only real question is whether
> we want to standardize naming of devices under sysfs (like hwmon does)
> or allow the individual drivers to do the naming?

Allow the drivers to do the naming. Having useless name like "als0",
with als0/name telling me what the driver is is bad.
								Pavel

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