Subject: Re: Device Properties: The Next Generation
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@sibyte.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/16/2001 07:52:47
matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> writes:
>    Everything else could use them as bytes.
> 
> i can see the "need" for two types, then: string & binary data.

how about a third:

string pointer.  (it's read like a string, but instead of being stored
in the property it's a ptr off to a string constant presumably
embedded in text someplace.)

The notion being, if you've got a 20 byte device name string if your
driver, no point in replicating that in N properties too...




cgd