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DateSat, 14 Oct 2006 13:10:16 -0700
FromJoel Becker <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/5] Allow more than PAGESIZE data read in configfs
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 12:43:51PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 01:01:07 -0700
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > Argh!!!!
> >
> > Are you going to honestly tell me you have a single attribute in sysfs
> > that is larger than PAGE_SIZE?
>
> He does not. It's a matter of reusing existing facilities rather than
> impementing similar things in multiple places. The equivalent patch in
> configfs removed a decent amount of code:

Issues of PAGE_SIZE and attribute size aside, the patch posted
was incorrect. While they used seq_file, they implemented it in a
completely inefficent fashion, filling the entire buffer in one ->show()
call rather than letting multiple read(2) calls iterate their list.

Joel

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