Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Dec 2013 20:34:40 +0100 | Subject | Re: how to represent sequence of brightnesses in /sys (was Re: [PATCH] Add the LED burst trigger) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote: >> Sysfs is meant to be human-readable/writable, so please use plain ASCII >> numbers in strings instead. > > Actually, sysfs is meant to be one value per file, and it is
Ideally, yes.
> understood that data that are "natively blob" are just passed as > blob. (I believe this qualifies).
But it doesn't buy us much here, does it? It will make e.g. shell scripts needlessly complicated.
> Sequence of ascii numbers would work for me, but I don't think that is > allowed.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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