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On 2020/8/5 上午12:35, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> [sorry about not chiming in earlier]
>
> On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 16:05:03 +0800
> Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao at intel.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 04:23:21PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> (...)
>
>>> Based on the feedback we've received, the previously proposed interface
>>> is not viable.  I think there's agreement that the user needs to be
>>> able to parse and interpret the version information.  Using json seems
>>> viable, but I don't know if it's the best option.  Is there any
>>> precedent of markup strings returned via sysfs we could follow?
> I don't think encoding complex information in a sysfs file is a viable
> approach. Quoting Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst:
>
> "Attributes should be ASCII text files, preferably with only one value
> per file. It is noted that it may not be efficient to contain only one
> value per file, so it is socially acceptable to express an array of
> values of the same type.
>                                                                                   
> Mixing types, expressing multiple lines of data, and doing fancy
> formatting of data is heavily frowned upon."
>
> Even though this is an older file, I think these restrictions still
> apply.


+1, that's another reason why devlink(netlink) is better.

Thanks