Re: [PATCH] read() from driverfs files can read more bytes

[Patrick Mochel]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> 
> > It is really nice, but it's too much for the common case. The goal is to 
> > have each file export one and only one value. Setting up an iterator is 
> > overkill for one value.
> 
> You don't have to use the iterator side of that.

Well, I'll be...

I like the seq_ stuff, and the ->read() side of things take care of the 
issues discussed in this thread. What's even nicer is that if I convert to 
that, driver callbacks become something like either:

int driver_show(struct device * dev, struct seq_file * m)

or 

int driver_show(struct device * dev, char * buf)

Have you considered doing write()?

	-pat