Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:20:53 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: ecc@cmu.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add netdev led trigger
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> > I was hoping you'd comment on the ABI itself, too. It uses 
> > 
> > echo "foo bar baz" > file
> > 
> > to enable/disable specific events to be "displayed". More traditional
> > interface would be 
> > 
> > echo disable > file_foo
> 
> The main arguments for using the single "mode" file are:
> 1. that's how it was implemented for OpenWrt, and there's a fair
>    amount of userland (web admin tools, etc.) that groks it

That's not good reason...

> 2. it's only specifying a set of three possible values -- separate
>    files seem like overkill

Does it? AFAICT it allowed any combination of 3 -- IOW 2^3 values.

Please be consistent with rest of kernel...
								Pavel
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