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Message-Id: <1161026208.6389.123.camel@linuxchandra>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:16:48 -0700
From: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@...ibm.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@...cle.com>,
ckrm-tech@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Allow more than PAGESIZE data read in configfs
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@...cle.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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