[PATCH #3355] Add sysfs support for powering down the OLPC 88W8838 wireless chip.
Deepak Saxena
dsaxena at laptop.org
Sat Jun 14 13:25:23 EDT 2008
On Jun 13 2008, at 20:05, Chris Ball was caught saying:
> Hi Deepak,
>
> > I think the preffered way to do this is via sscanf() of the
> > incoming buffer as you can catch errors such as non-integer
> > input. simple_stroul() will just return 0 which is not what we
> > want.
>
> > I'd also change the mode to 0400 as this is a write-only bit.
>
> > My preffered option is to make it r/w, call it wlan_enabled and
> > than we could check the state via the file too by storing the
> > current setting.
>
> All applied in the replacement patch below. Thanks!
Looks good.
~Deepak
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