Re: An alternative way of populating /proc

[Jamie Lokier]

Matt Aubury wrote:
> So it seems that the vast majority of cases can be boiled down to just
> whether or not root is allowed to write.

Such wacky syntax as "%<d" (400), "%>d" (600) and "%644d" perhaps.

> As for data types, integer I/O (decimal and hex) seems to be very
> common. String output is also frequent. We could potentially also do
> range checked integers, string input, arrays... How useful would these
> be? We'll still have the ability to pass function pointers for output,
> and I'll be adding support for generic input too.

There is already a syntax defined for range checking via the MODULE_PARM
macro.  Can it be shared?

-- Jamie