On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Tony Olech wrote: > On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 10:13 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote: > > > The intended use of the read-only sysfs file is to enable first-line > > > support staff to determine quickly what actual firmware file is being > > > used. > > You have that in the driver (and similar ones): > > + dev_info(&vub300->udev->dev, "requesting offload firmware %s\n", > > + vub300->vub_name); > > Won't checking the logs do? > > Wolfram > > Nearly, but there is one crucial difference, the logs > are historic and the sysfs is current.
I personally have no problem with your exporting the firmware name through sysfs for human consumption only and that no user space tools rely on this. Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
