Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] Allow more than PAGESIZE data read in configfs | From | Chandra Seetharaman <> | Date | Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:16:48 -0700 |
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On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 01:01 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 04:27:13PM -0700, Chandra Seetharaman wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 15:48 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:18:22 -0700 > > > Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 01:19:35PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > The patch deletes a pile of custom code from configfs and replaces it with > > > > > calls to standard kernel infrastructure and fixes a shortcoming/bug in the > > > > > process. Migration over to the new interface is trivial and almost > > > > > scriptable. > > > > > > > > The configfs stuff is based on the sysfs code too. Should we > > > > migrate sysfs/file.c to the same seq_file code? Serious question, if > > > > the cleanup is considered better. > > > > > > > > > > I don't see why not. I don't know if anyone has though of/proposed it > > > before. > > > > I can generate a patch for that too. > > Argh!!!! > > Are you going to honestly tell me you have a single attribute in sysfs > that is larger than PAGE_SIZE? If you are getting anywhere close to > this, then something is really wrong and we need to talk.
I was replying to Andrew's reply in the thread. Thats all.
I do _not_ have any personal interests here (sysfs).
> > greg k-h --
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