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A critical look at sysfs attribute values

A critical look at sysfs attribute values

Posted Mar 23, 2010 13:43 UTC (Tue) by mezcalero (subscriber, #45103)
Parent article: A critical look at sysfs attribute values

It's also awful that the USB subsystem encodes hexadecimal values without the 0x prefix, but the PCI subsystem includes it:

$ cat /sys/devices/pci0000\:00/0000\:00\:1a.7/vendor
0x8086
$ cat /sys/devices/pci0000\:00/0000\:00\:1a.7/usb1/idVendor
1d6b


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A critical look at sysfs attribute values

Posted Apr 12, 2010 21:46 UTC (Mon) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

It seems a bit sad that you can't get the text representation of either of these.

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