On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:47:54PM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote: > On Tue, 10 Mar, at 08:51:59AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > > > I'm not 100% happy with write(2) (which is all we have in sysfs) for > > two reasons: > > > > 1. If we write a file name, eww. That's more complicated, requires > > temporary files, has annoying mount namespace issues, etc. > > > > 2. If we write the full contents, we need to do it in a single call to > > write. That means that we can't use cat, which mostly defeats the > > purpose. In fact, using cat could be actively harmful. > > At this point I'd really like Greg to chime in. > > In principal, I'm not stricly opposed to using a simple char device > provided that it's not essentially a copy and paste of code from > drivers/base/firmware_class.c. > > Greg?
Yes, I don't want a character driver here for this if at all possible. Just stick with the firmware download code, it's there and should work "as-is" for your stuff. 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/
