From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Felix Schnizlein <fschnizlein@suse.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Felix Schnizlein <fschnizlein@suse.de>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux@armlinux.org.uk, will.deacon@arm.com, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86 cpuinfo: implement sysfs nodes for x86
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 14:56:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191211135619.GA538980@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4737004.4U1sY2OxSp@skinner.arch.suse.de>
On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 11:42:35AM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> If Greg (and others) are ok, I would add "page size exceeding" handling.
> Hm, quick searching for an example I realize that debugfs can exceed page
> size. Is it that hard to expose a sysfs file larger than page size?
No, there is a simple way to do it, but I'm not going to show you how as
it is NOT how to use sysfs at all :)
Why are you wanting to dump this whole mess into one file and then parse
it, it's no different from having 100+ different sysfs files and then
doing a readdir(3) on the thing, right?
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-11 13:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-06 16:24 [PATCH v5 0/3] sysfs: add sysfs based cpuinfo Thomas Renninger
2019-12-06 16:24 ` [PATCH 1/3] cpuinfo: add sysfs based arch independent cpuinfo framework Thomas Renninger
2019-12-06 16:33 ` Greg KH
2019-12-06 16:56 ` Randy Dunlap
2019-12-06 16:24 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86 cpuinfo: implement sysfs nodes for x86 Thomas Renninger
2019-12-06 16:36 ` Greg KH
2019-12-10 20:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-12-10 20:53 ` Greg KH
2019-12-11 10:42 ` Thomas Renninger
2019-12-11 13:56 ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-12-11 14:12 ` Thomas Renninger
2019-12-11 14:26 ` Greg KH
2019-12-11 14:52 ` Thomas Renninger
2019-12-11 14:57 ` Greg KH
2019-12-06 16:24 ` [PATCH 3/3] arm64 cpuinfo: implement sysfs nodes for arm64 Thomas Renninger
2019-12-06 16:37 ` Greg KH
2019-12-09 10:31 ` Will Deacon
2019-12-09 11:28 ` Thomas Renninger
2019-12-09 17:38 ` Will Deacon
2019-12-10 13:33 ` Thomas Renninger
2019-12-10 14:47 ` Greg KH
2019-12-10 16:24 ` Thomas Renninger
2019-12-06 16:58 ` [PATCH v5 0/3] sysfs: add sysfs based cpuinfo Mark Rutland
2019-12-06 17:29 ` Thomas Renninger
2019-12-06 18:16 ` Mark Rutland
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