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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Open Firmware device tree virtual filesystem
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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 18:48:33 +0100

> If you *really* want (the option of) showing things as text
> in the filesystem, you better make it so that there is a
> one-to-one translation back to binary. For example, what
> does this mean, is it a text string or two bytes:
>
> 01.02
>
> Yes you as a user can guess, but scripts can't (reliably).

We have some extensive code in fs/openpromfs/inode.c that
determines whether a property is text or not. I can't
guarentee it works %100, but it's very context dependant
(only the driver "knows") but it works for all the cases
I've tried.

I really think you're making a mountain out of a mole hill, to be
honest :-)
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