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SubjectRe: SYSFS: need a noncaching read
Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 07:32:07AM +0200, Robert Schwebel wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 11:43:17AM +0200, Heiko Schocher wrote:
>>> I have developed a device driver and use the sysFS to export some
>>> registers to userspace.
>> Uuuh, uggly. Don't do that. Device drivers are there to abstract things,
>> not to play around with registers from userspace.
>>
>>> I opened the sysFS File for one register and did some reads from this
>>> File, but I alwas becoming the same value from the register, whats not
>>> OK, because they are changing. So I found out that the sysFS caches
>>> the reads ... :-(
>> Yes, it does. What you can do is close()ing the file handle between
>> accesses, which makes it work but is slow.
>
> Do an lseek back to 0 and then re-read, you will get called in your
> driver again.

There should be an intervening sysfs_notify() call from kernel side to
make sysfs re-populate its cache on read again. sysfs bin files buffer
the result but don't cache the result but this again doesn't really fit
the usage case.

Thanks.

--
tejun

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