From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, ckrm-tech@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Allow more than PAGESIZE data read in configfs
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:35:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061010203511.GF7911@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061010182043.20990.83892.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 11:20:43AM -0700, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> Currently, maximum amount of data that can be read from a configfs
> attribute file is limited to PAGESIZE bytes. This is a limitation for
> some of the usages of configfs.
NAK. This forces a complex and inappropriate interface on the
majority of users, and doesn't honor configfs' simplicity-first design.
I understand Chandra's concerns, but this patch isn't the right
way to do it.
Joel
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Joel Becker
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-10 20:35 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 ` Joel Becker [this message]
2006-10-10 21:31 ` [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 0/5] Allow more than PAGESIZE data read in configfs 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
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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