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Date:   Thu, 23 Sep 2021 12:39:35 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: Too large badblocks sysfs file (was: [PATCH v3 0/7] badblocks
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 08:09:21PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2021, Coly Li wrote:
> > Hi all the kernel gurus, and folks in mailing lists,
> > 
> > This is a question about exporting 4KB+ text information via sysfs 
> > interface. I need advice on how to handle the problem.
> 
> Why do you think there is a problem?
> As documented in Documentation/admin-guide/md.rst, the truncation at 1
> page is expected and by design.

Ah, shouldn't that info also be in Documentation/ABI/ so that others can
easily find it?

thanks,

greg k-h