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SubjectRe: [RFC] support for sysfs string based properties for SCSI (1/3)
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On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 12:02, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 02:19:23PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > diff -Nru a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
> > --- a/drivers/base/core.c Sat May 3 14:18:21 2003
> > +++ b/drivers/base/core.c Sat May 3 14:18:21 2003
> > @@ -42,6 +42,8 @@
> >
> > if (dev_attr->show)
> > ret = dev_attr->show(dev,buf);
> > + else if (dev->bus->show)
> > + ret = dev->bus->show(dev, buf, attr);
> > return ret;
>
> Can't you do this by using the class interface instead?

I don't know, I haven't digested the class interface patches yet, since
they just appeared this morning.

> This also forces you to do a lot of string compares within the bus show
> function (as your example did) which is almost as unwieldy as just
> having individual show functions, right? :)

Nothing prevents users from doing it the callback way. However,
callbacks aren't a scaleable interface for properties that have to be
shared and overridden.

I agree string compares are unwieldy (and smack of XML), so I'm open to
suggestions of a better way of doing it that has the same flexibility of
the string method...

James


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