Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:13:43 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: Sysfs and suicidal attributes |
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Cornelia Huck wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:49:37 +0900, > Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> wrote: > >> What I was trying to say was that suicide and murder could be done the >> same way from the driver's POV or am I misunderstanding? > > Do you mean a device unregistering itself from its attribute vs. a > device unregistering another device from its attribute?
More like "device unregistering itself from its attribute" vs. "whatever else".
>>> A general immediate disconnect of the buffers (which will be handled in >>> a second pass) would be great, but doesn't sound easy. >> I haven't thought too hard about actual implementation but it's pretty >> specific case. If doing things in generic manner is difficult, there >> are plenty of shortcuts to choose from, I think. > > The "second pass" approach where the store method calls the sysfs core > or sets a flag or whatever sounds doable, but I'm not sure how general > we can get. Maybe for all store methods that just trigger an action.
Hmm... I'll give it a shot in a few days.
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