On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:30:32PM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: > ConfigFS lacked binary attributes up until now. This patch > introduces support for binary attributes in a somewhat similar > manner of sysfs binary attributes albeit with changes that > fit the configfs usage model. > > Problems that configfs binary attributes fix are everything that > requires a binary blob as part of the configuration of a resource, > such as bitstream loading for FPGAs, DTBs for dynamically created > devices etc.
What's wrong with using the firmware interface for this instead? What driver/subsystem wants to use configfs binary files? Having a user for this api is essential if you want it to be merged. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/