Re: sysfs abuse in recent i2o changes

[Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>]

Hello,

Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 05:02:41PM +0200, Markus Lidel wrote:
>>I know, but i hopefully also have a good reason to do so... First, the 
>>attributes provided through these functions are for accessing the 
>>firmware... The controller has a little limitation, it could only handle 
>>64 blocks, but sysfs only have 4k...
>>Now there are two options:
>>1) when writing: read a 64k block, merge it with the 4k block and write 
>>it back, when reading: read a 64k block and only return the needed 4k block.
>>2) extend the sysfs attribute to allow 64k blocks
>>IMHO the first is not a very good solution, because for a 64k block it 
>>has to be written 16 times...
>>Of course if someone finds a better solution i would be glad to hear 
>>about it...
> Use the binary file interface of sysfs, which was written exactly for
> this kind of thing. :)

Oh i tried to use the binary interface, but i haven't found a way to 
increase the block size beyond 4k, could you please tell me how i could 
adjust it, or where i could read about it?

Thank you very much!


Best regards,


Markus Lidel
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