Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965230AbWJKWtB (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:49:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965232AbWJKWtA (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:49:00 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:36742 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965230AbWJKWsw (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:48:52 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:48:36 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Joel Becker 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: <20061011154836.9befa359.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20061011221822.GD7911@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> References: <20061010182043.20990.83892.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20061010203511.GF7911@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <20061011131935.448a8696.akpm@osdl.org> <20061011221822.GD7911@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 894 Lines: 21 On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:18:22 -0700 Joel Becker 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. - 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/