Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161563AbWJKWSs (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:18:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161565AbWJKWSs (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:18:48 -0400 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:63995 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161563AbWJKWSr (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:18:47 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:18:22 -0700 From: Joel Becker To: Andrew Morton Cc: Chandra Seetharaman , 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: <20061011221822.GD7911@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Morton , Chandra Seetharaman , ckrm-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20061010182043.20990.83892.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20061010203511.GF7911@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <20061011131935.448a8696.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061011131935.448a8696.akpm@osdl.org> 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: 968 Lines: 29 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. Joel -- "I almost ran over an angel He had a nice big fat cigar. 'In a sense,' he said, 'You're alone here So if you jump, you'd best jump far.'" 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/