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From: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, menage@google.com,
	matthltc@us.ibm.com, ckrm-tech@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 0/5] Allow more than PAGESIZE data read in configfs
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:29:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1161037741.5057.2.camel@linuxchandra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061016133256.e09e76ac.pj@sgi.com>

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 13:32 -0700, Paul Jackson wrote:

<snip>

> Chandra - I haven't looked at seq file lately - could a user of it
> such as configfs impose a length limit of its choosing, building on

Quick look at the seq_file interfaces shows there is no such capability.
(disclaimer: I am no expert of seq_file :)

> your patch, without pushing the number of lines of code back above
> where it started?
> 
> Perhaps, say, we would let the callback routines could push stuff into
> a seq file without small limits, but then the configfs code could
> truncate that output to a limit of its choosing.  This would impose a
> length limit, safely.
> 
-- 

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    Chandra Seetharaman               | Be careful what you choose....
              - sekharan@us.ibm.com   |      .......you may get it.
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-16 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-10 18:20 [PATCH 0/5] Allow more than PAGESIZE data read in configfs Chandra Seetharaman
2006-10-10 18:20 ` [PATCH 1/5] Fix a module count leak Chandra Seetharaman
2006-10-10 22:17   ` Joel Becker
2006-10-10 18:20 ` [PATCH 2/5] Use seq_file for read side of operations Chandra Seetharaman
2006-10-11  9:12   ` Joel Becker
2006-10-10 18:21 ` [PATCH 3/5] Change configfs_example.c to use the new interface Chandra Seetharaman
2006-10-10 18:21 ` [PATCH 4/5] Change Documentation to reflect " Chandra Seetharaman
2006-10-10 18:21 ` [PATCH 5/5] Change the existing code to use " Chandra Seetharaman
2006-10-10 20:35 ` [PATCH 0/5] Allow more than PAGESIZE data read in configfs Joel Becker
2006-10-10 21:31   ` [ckrm-tech] " Paul Menage
2006-10-10 21:58     ` Joel Becker
2006-10-10 23:13       ` Chandra Seetharaman
2006-10-11  0:15         ` Joel Becker
2006-10-11  0:49       ` Matt Helsley
2006-10-11  1:28         ` Joel Becker
2006-10-11 22:39           ` Greg KH
2006-10-11 23:26             ` Chandra Seetharaman
2006-10-12  4:17               ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-12 23:51               ` Greg KH
2006-10-13  0:16                 ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-13 23:38                   ` Matt Helsley
2006-10-13 23:40                 ` Matt Helsley
2006-10-13 23:47                   ` Paul Menage
2006-10-14  6:17                   ` Greg KH
2006-10-14 23:14                     ` Matt Helsley
2006-10-16 19:10                 ` Chandra Seetharaman
2006-10-16 20:32                   ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-16 22:29                     ` Chandra Seetharaman [this message]
2006-10-17  2:59                       ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-12  2:17             ` Matt Helsley
2006-10-12 23:54               ` Greg KH
2006-10-13  3:22                 ` Matt Helsley
     [not found]           ` <20061011220619.GB7911@ca-server1.us.oracle.com>
     [not found]             ` <1160619516.18766.209.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2006-10-12  7:08               ` Joel Becker
2006-10-12 21:44                 ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-12 22:51                   ` Joel Becker
2006-10-13  0:01                     ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-14  4:40                       ` Greg KH
2006-10-13 23:37                 ` Matt Helsley
2006-10-14  0:09                   ` Joel Becker
2006-10-15  1:06                     ` Matt Helsley
2006-10-15 19:07                     ` Paul Jackson
2006-10-16 19:33                     ` Chandra Seetharaman
2006-10-16 23:07                       ` Joel Becker
2006-10-11 20:19   ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-11 21:41     ` Joel Becker
2006-10-11 22:18     ` Joel Becker
2006-10-11 22:48       ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-11 23:27         ` Chandra Seetharaman
2006-10-14  8:01           ` Greg KH
2006-10-14 19:43             ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-14 20:10               ` Joel Becker
2006-10-16 19:24                 ` Chandra Seetharaman
2006-10-16 23:09                   ` Joel Becker
2006-10-18  0:55                     ` Chandra Seetharaman
2006-10-19 18:42                       ` Joel Becker
2006-10-16 19:16             ` Chandra Seetharaman

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