Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/2] introduce ALS sysfs class

[Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> On Tue 2009-09-22 13:42:23, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>> Zhang Rui wrote:
>> > Hi, Jonathan,
>> >
>> > this is the refresh ALS sysfs class driver.
>> > I just introduced one sysfs attribute "illuminance", because
>> > I didn't catch the exact meaning of the others like "???infrared".
>> > So it would be great if you can generate an incremental patch
>> > to introduce the other optional attributes needed, and update
>> > the documentation as well. :)
>> Will do, though may just leave it out of first pass of drivers
>> (as it may be controversial and it would be nice to get something
>> in place before the arguments begin!)
>>
>> All looks nice and clean. The only real question is whether
>> we want to standardize naming of devices under sysfs (like hwmon does)
>> or allow the individual drivers to do the naming?
>
> Allow the drivers to do the naming. Having useless name like "als0",
> with als0/name telling me what the driver is is bad.
>                                                                Pavel
>

This is how rfkill works, is there a good reason for that ? Should we
change that ?

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