sysfs names

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 10:03:50AM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > It'd be nice if the driver could provide a parameter to the
> > sysfs show() and store() routines... i.e.
> > 
> > static ssize_t show_temp(struct device *dev, char *buf, int param);
> > 
> > DEVICE_ATTR(temp1_input, S_IRUGO, show_temp, NULL, 1)
> > DEVICE_ATTR(temp2_input, S_IRUGO, show_temp, NULL, 2)
> > DEVICE_ATTR(temp3_input, S_IRUGO, show_temp, NULL, 3)
> 
> Much like what we had in 2.4. And this was Good.

But we had multiple values per file, which was not "good" at all :)

> > But, I can't see a way to do this without forcing a massive
> > rewrite of all sysfs-enabled drivers - oh well.
> 
> Sad but probably true. Still I'd like to hear Greg about what it would
> take to do so, and if there is a chance that this happens in 2.7.

I really doubt it, as it isn't on my list of things to do, but others
might want to see helpers like this, and I always take patches...

thanks,

greg k-h