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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] simple sysfs wrappers for single values
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@gmail.com>
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On Sun, 2020-08-30 at 00:37 +0100, Alex Dewar wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've noticed there seems to have been a fair amount of discussion around
> the subject of possible helper methods for use in the context of sysfs
> show methods (which I haven't had a chance to go through in detail yet
> -- sorry!), so I thought I'd send out a couple of patches I've been
> working on for this, in case it's of any interest to anyone.

If you really want to do this, I suggest you get use
wrappers like sysfs_emit_string, sysfs_emit_int, sysfs_emit_u64
though I don't see _that_ much value.