Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030302AbWJJUfc (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:35:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030305AbWJJUfc (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:35:32 -0400 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:45019 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030302AbWJJUfb (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:35:31 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:35:11 -0700 From: Joel Becker To: Chandra Seetharaman Cc: akpm@osdl.org, ckrm-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Allow more than PAGESIZE data read in configfs Message-ID: <20061010203511.GF7911@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mail-Followup-To: Chandra Seetharaman , akpm@osdl.org, ckrm-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20061010182043.20990.83892.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20061010182043.20990.83892.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 967 Lines: 28 On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 11:20:43AM -0700, Chandra Seetharaman wrote: > Currently, maximum amount of data that can be read from a configfs > attribute file is limited to PAGESIZE bytes. This is a limitation for > some of the usages of configfs. NAK. This forces a complex and inappropriate interface on the majority of users, and doesn't honor configfs' simplicity-first design. I understand Chandra's concerns, but this patch isn't the right way to do it. Joel -- Dort wo man B?cher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Mensch. (Wherever they burn books, they will also end up burning people.) - Heinrich Heine Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/