Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030439AbWJJVb5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:31:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030440AbWJJVb5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:31:57 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.33.17]:3070 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030439AbWJJVb4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:31:56 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to: mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding: content-disposition:references; b=ZxpIBI1VTQTPxkrPLbGNZn7e1bSTyfx8GX1HTm6NKtjlY0YMxxAhGrHxwtWyyCC/K Dk5V43t/CGUiJoqSVc7uw== Message-ID: <6599ad830610101431j33a5dc55h6878d5bc6db91e85@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:31:43 -0700 From: "Paul Menage" To: "Chandra Seetharaman" , akpm@osdl.org, ckrm-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 0/5] Allow more than PAGESIZE data read in configfs In-Reply-To: <20061010203511.GF7911@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20061010182043.20990.83892.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20061010203511.GF7911@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 870 Lines: 19 On 10/10/06, Joel Becker wrote: > 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. How is the seq_file interface complex and inappropriate? For the configfs clients it's basically a drop-in replacement for sprintf(), as Chandra's patches show. Paul - 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/