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From: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	sekharan@us.ibm.com, menage@google.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ckrm-tech@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 0/5] Allow more than PAGESIZE data read in configfs
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:38:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1160782684.18766.550.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061012171652.e157bc8d.pj@sgi.com>

On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 17:16 -0700, Paul Jackson wrote:

<snip>

> For those of us whose brains don't hold so many details at once,
> creating a new file system can seem a bit daunting.  And for those
> of us not skilled in the art, it is more likely to end up being
> 300 lines of code, presenting several good provocations for a Hellwig
> or a Viro to curse in the general direction of their monitors.

Definitely.

> Instead of trying to hijack configfs to purposes ill suited for it,
> I wonder if there isn't someway to lower the hurdles that us mere
> mortals must leap to creating additional filesystems.

	Again, I don't think using configfs to define groups of tasks is
ill-suited to the purpose of configfs. I think we're confusing the
limitations of the implementation with the purpose for having configfs
in addition to sysfs.

Cheers,
	-Matt Helsley


  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-13 23:38 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 [this message]
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
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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