Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 0/5] Allow more than PAGESIZE data read in configfs | From | Matt Helsley <> | Date | Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:38:04 -0700 |
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On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 17:16 -0700, Paul Jackson wrote:
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> For those of us whose brains don't hold so many details at once, > creating a new file system can seem a bit daunting. And for those > of us not skilled in the art, it is more likely to end up being > 300 lines of code, presenting several good provocations for a Hellwig > or a Viro to curse in the general direction of their monitors.
Definitely.
> Instead of trying to hijack configfs to purposes ill suited for it, > I wonder if there isn't someway to lower the hurdles that us mere > mortals must leap to creating additional filesystems.
Again, I don't think using configfs to define groups of tasks is ill-suited to the purpose of configfs. I think we're confusing the limitations of the implementation with the purpose for having configfs in addition to sysfs.
Cheers, -Matt Helsley
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