Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 0/5] Allow more than PAGESIZE data read in configfs

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On 10/10/06, Joel Becker <[email protected]> wrote:
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.

How is the seq_file interface complex and inappropriate? For the
configfs clients it's basically a drop-in replacement for sprintf(),
as Chandra's patches show.

Paul
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