Messages in this thread | | | From | Tim Jansen <> | Subject | Re: /proc format (was Device Registry (DevReg) Patch 0.2.0) | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2001 00:46:39 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 25 April 2001 23:16, you wrote: > Not necessarily. If the "extended data" is put following the current data > (since the data is currently record oriented) just making the output > format longer will not/should not casue problems in reading the data. > Alternatively, you can always put one value per record: > tag:value > tag2:value2...
Both solutions only work for simple data, they dont help for more complex things like adding a variable-sized list of structures. Actually the first devreg version used something like your second proposal and I gave it up because it wasnt flexible enough to add USB configuration data.
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