Re: [PATCH] [7/6] PCI config space in sysfs

Greg KH (greg@kroah.com)
Thu, 3 Jul 2003 19:22:26 -0700


On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 02:31:31AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:42:58PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > - Fix a couple of bugs in sysfs's handling of binary files (my fault).
>
> Now I'm having second thoughts. Sigh ;-)

Bleah, right after I sent these patches off :(

> My intended design was that sysfs would copy to/from buffer + offset
> rather than buffer. Seems that change 1.6 to this file (hm, bkweb seems
> broken at the moment?) changed that. so that broke my pci-sysfs changes
> which weren't in the tree at the time.
>
> It probably makes more sense to copy to/from buffer rather than
> buffer+offset so we can implement larger sized binary files (we can use
> a smaller buffer than the size of the file and do multiple read/write
> calls).
>
> So I think I'd like to hold off on this patchset, not change sysfs and
> adapt my changes to the new API (which I didn't even know had changed.
> grr.)

Ok, want to send a patch to backout only the api changes that you made?

thanks,

greg k-h
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