A critical look at sysfs attribute values

Posted Mar 17, 2010 23:25 UTC (Wed) by yanfali (subscriber, #2949)
In reply to: A critical look at sysfs attribute values by Gollum
Parent article: A critical look at sysfs attribute values

YAML is also a nice simple structured text format, with a lot of available libraries.

A critical look at sysfs attribute values

Posted Mar 19, 2010 11:19 UTC (Fri) by mgedmin (guest, #34497) [Link]

I've read the YAML spec. I can never understand people who proclaim it to
be "simple". Even XML is simpler!

A critical look at sysfs attribute values

Posted Mar 21, 2010 21:08 UTC (Sun) by gerdesj (subscriber, #5446) [Link]

I'll take your YAML or XML or whatever and raise you ASN.1. Heck, you could mount sysmibfs and make it legible - hilarious!

The latest modish markup thingie isn't going to solve the design goals of sysfs, let alone anything else.

I personally like the simple text file with a value in it approach - I don't have to learn Yet Another Markup Language (and I don't just mean YAML 8)

Re evaluating the goals and perhaps filling in the missing ones and then someone enforcing the end design decisions will give a chance for the grandkids to see this thing.