Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Nov 2006 16:01:54 -0200 | From | Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <> | Subject | Re: How to document dimension units for virtual files? |
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On Wed, 08 Nov 2006, Michael Holzheu wrote: > +- If data has dimension units, encode that in the filename.
Can we please encode units in the filename using a separator other than "_"? the reason for this is that _ is already_used_to_separate_words in the entries, and it gets difficult to know if something is part of the entry name or an unit.
Please consider using ":" to separate units and other specific qualifiers (e.g. led colors) from the main attribute name. This helps userspace applications to behave better when faced with stuff like "a_b_c:unit1" and "a_b_c:unit2" at the same time.
That said, AFAIK using units is explicitly discouraged on hwmon-style sysfs classes. The recent thread about a battery class illustrates this. Please keep this in mind.
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