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

[Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>]

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 13:32 -0700, Paul Jackson wrote:

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> Chandra - I haven't looked at seq file lately - could a user of it
> such as configfs impose a length limit of its choosing, building on

Quick look at the seq_file interfaces shows there is no such capability.
(disclaimer: I am no expert of seq_file :)

> your patch, without pushing the number of lines of code back above
> where it started?
> 
> Perhaps, say, we would let the callback routines could push stuff into
> a seq file without small limits, but then the configfs code could
> truncate that output to a limit of its choosing.  This would impose a
> length limit, safely.
> 
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