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Date:   Sun, 8 Sep 2019 14:18:26 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc:     linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] leds: remove PAGE_SIZE limit of
 /sys/class/leds/<led>/trigger
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On Sun, Sep 08, 2019 at 09:41:08PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> Reading /sys/class/leds/<led>/trigger returns all available LED triggers.
> However, the size of this file is limited to PAGE_SIZE because of the
> limitation for sysfs attribute.
> 
> Enabling LED CPU trigger on systems with thousands of CPUs easily hits
> PAGE_SIZE limit, and makes it impossible to see all available LED triggers
> and which trigger is currently activated.
> 
> This converts /sys/class/leds/<led>/trigger to bin attribute and removes
> the PAGE_SIZE limitation.

Can you also put the "this really is not a good idea" type wording here
in the changelog text as well?  Just want to try to make it explicitly
clear that this should never be copied by anyone else.

thanks,

greg k-h