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Subject: Re: PATCH: seq_file interface to provide large data chunks
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Vladimir Kondratiev <vladimir.kondratiev@intel.com>
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On Iau, 2003-07-10 at 09:19, Vladimir Kondratiev wrote:
> seq_file interface, as it exist in last official kernel, never provides 
> more then one page for each 'read' call. Old read_proc_t did loop to 
> fill more than one page.

There is a merge of Al's additional seq_file stuff to 2.4 floating
around (its in -ac for one) that may be a better thing to merge instead
if we want it 

Al ?