On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 12:24:35PM -0700, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 13:10 -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> > Issues of PAGE_SIZE and attribute size aside, the patch posted
> > was incorrect. While they used seq_file, they implemented it in a
>
> I do not think it is incorrect. It provides a simplest interface to
> configfs's clients.
I understand that it provides a simple sed(1)-based change for
existing clients. However, it abuses seq_file in exactly the wrong way.
> > completely inefficent fashion, filling the entire buffer in one ->show()
> > call rather than letting multiple read(2) calls iterate their list.
>
> So, are you suggesting that we should provide a generic seq_operations
> interface to configfs's clients ?
Yes, if we provide a vector type in any way, it should be via
seq_operations or something like it. If we're going to use seq_file, we
should use it correctly.
Joel
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