Re: [PATCH 5/6] coresight: etm3x: breaking down sysFS status interface

From	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 5/6] coresight: etm3x: breaking down sysFS status interface
Date	2015-10-07 19:00 +0200
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On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 09:26:42AM -0600, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> SysFS rules stipulate that only one value can be conveyed per
> file.  As such splitting the "status" interface in individual files.
> 
> This is also useful for user space applications - that way they can
> probe each file individually rather than having to parse a list of entries.

Ah, much nicer, thanks for doing this.

greg k-h
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[PATCH 5/6] coresight: etm3x: breaking down sysFS status interface Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> - 2015-10-07 17:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 5/6] coresight: etm3x: breaking down sysFS status  interface Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2015-10-07 19:00 +0200

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