Re: [PATCH] read() from driverfs files can read more bytes

[Alexander Viro]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Patrick Mochel wrote:

> issues discussed in this thread. What's even nicer is that if I convert to 
> that, driver callbacks become something like either:
> 
> int driver_show(struct device * dev, struct seq_file * m)
> 
> or 
> 
> int driver_show(struct device * dev, char * buf)

Preferably the former.
 
> Have you considered doing write()?

I had and that's going to be resurrected when remount() will be dealt
with (options-parsing both benefits a lot from and is a good testbed for
such helpers).