Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Allow more than PAGESIZE data read in configfs
From: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Reply-To: sekharan@us.ibm.com
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>,
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Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:16:48 -0700
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On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 01:01 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 04:27:13PM -0700, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 15:48 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:18:22 -0700
> > > Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com> 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.
> > 
> > I can generate a patch for that too.
> 
> Argh!!!!
> 
> Are you going to honestly tell me you have a single attribute in sysfs
> that is larger than PAGE_SIZE?  If you are getting anywhere close to
> this, then something is really wrong and we need to talk.

I was replying to Andrew's reply in the thread. Thats all.

I do _not_ have any personal interests here (sysfs).

> 
> greg k-h
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