From: Greg KH <greg@kroah•com>
To: Amar Mudrankit <amar.mudrankit@qlogic•com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>,
netdev@vger•kernel.org, rdreier@cisco•com,
general@lists•openfabrics.org, poornima.kamath@qlogic•com
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH v3 08/13] QLogic VNIC: sysfs interface implementation for the driver
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:30:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080603183039.GA30454@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c8028d330806031125x4181d8e3p9cdaf1f4c79e88c6@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 11:55:00PM +0530, Amar Mudrankit wrote:
> Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt <<snip>>
>
> [Using configfs]
>
> Like sysfs, attributes should be ASCII text files, preferably
> with only one value per file. The same efficiency caveats from sysfs
> apply. Don't mix more than one attribute in one attribute file.
>
> It looks like configfs also does not allow multiple attributes per file.
But you have attribute/value pairs, right? Just create multiple
attribute files then in configfs for them.
> So, in that case, shall we modify our sysfs code to support one value per
> sysfs file? With this approach, the impact on user space applications that
> we have which depend on the qlgc_vnic driver sysfs interface will be less.
If you want to, but as this looks like it is used for configuration, I
suggest using configfs instead.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-03 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-29 9:53 [PATCH v3 00/13] QLogic VNIC Driver Ramachandra K
2008-05-29 9:54 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH v3 01/13] QLogic VNIC: Driver - netdev implementation Ramachandra K
2008-05-29 17:27 ` [ofa-general] " Stephen Hemminger
2008-06-03 12:14 ` Ramachandra K
2008-06-03 17:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-05-29 9:54 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH v3 02/13] QLogic VNIC: Netpath - abstraction of connection to EVIC/VEx Ramachandra K
2008-05-29 9:55 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH v3 03/13] QLogic VNIC: Implementation of communication protocol with EVIC/VEx Ramachandra K
2008-05-29 9:55 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH v3 04/13] QLogic VNIC: Implementation of Control path of communication protocol Ramachandra K
2008-05-29 9:56 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH v3 05/13] QLogic VNIC: Implementation of Data " Ramachandra K
2008-05-29 9:56 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH v3 06/13] QLogic VNIC: IB core stack interaction Ramachandra K
2008-05-29 9:57 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH v3 07/13] QLogic VNIC: Handling configurable parameters of the driver Ramachandra K
2008-05-29 9:57 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH v3 08/13] QLogic VNIC: sysfs interface implementation for " Ramachandra K
2008-05-29 17:30 ` [ofa-general] " Stephen Hemminger
2008-05-29 17:48 ` Greg KH
2008-06-01 5:46 ` Roland Dreier
2008-06-03 12:24 ` [ofa-general] " Ramachandra K
2008-06-03 15:10 ` Roland Dreier
2008-06-03 18:25 ` Amar Mudrankit
2008-06-03 18:30 ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-06-03 18:45 ` David Dillow
2008-06-05 4:10 ` Roland Dreier
2008-06-05 5:40 ` Dave Dillow
2008-06-05 16:38 ` Roland Dreier
2008-06-05 17:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-06-05 17:32 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-05 20:47 ` Roland Dreier
2008-06-05 22:54 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-05 17:54 ` David Dillow
2008-05-29 9:58 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH v3 09/13] QLogic VNIC: IB Multicast for Ethernet broadcast/multicast Ramachandra K
2008-05-29 9:58 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH v3 10/13] QLogic VNIC: Driver Statistics collection Ramachandra K
2008-05-29 9:59 ` [PATCH v3 11/13] QLogic VNIC: Driver utility file - implements various utility macros Ramachandra K
2008-05-29 9:59 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH v3 12/13] QLogic VNIC: Driver Kconfig and Makefile Ramachandra K
2008-05-29 10:00 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH v3 13/13] QLogic VNIC: Modifications to IB " Ramachandra K
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