Re: the userspace side of driverfs

Nicholas Miell (nmiell@attbi.com)
11 Sep 2002 13:05:31 -0700

On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 00:00, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> If you have multiple values per file, why not make it a directory with
> multiple files in it, each with one value per file.
>

But subdirectories are child devices. Having array directories and
device directories would complicate the apps that have to parse this
data.

- Nicholas

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