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

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 16:37:07 EST


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).

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