[EXT] Re: [PATCH 1/2] lib: add helper to read strings from sysfs files

[Tomasz Duszynski]

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>25/01/2023 11:33, Tomasz Duszynski:
>> Reading strings from sysfs files is a re-occurring pattern hence add
>> helper for doing that.
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>In general it would be to nice to clean sysfs parsing in libs and drivers, so they all use some
>functions from EAL.
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That's generally true. Here I wanted to avoid tree-wide changes caused by unrelated work i.e a new bus
and do a cleanup, i.e use this read string util where applicable, later on.