Re: [PATCH] configfs: implement binary attributes

2015-12-30 Thread Pantelis Antoniou
Hi Joel, > On Dec 30, 2015, at 01:00 , Joel Becker wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 03:51:10PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> From: Pantelis Antoniou >> >> ConfigFS lacked binary attributes up until now. This patch >> introduces support for binary attributes in a somewhat similar >> mann

Re: [PATCH] configfs: implement binary attributes

2015-12-29 Thread Krzysztof Opasiak
W dniu 2015-12-24 o 15:51, Christoph Hellwig pisze: From: Pantelis Antoniou ConfigFS lacked binary attributes up until now. This patch introduces support for binary attributes in a somewhat similar manner of sysfs binary attributes albeit with changes that fit the configfs usage model. Probl

Re: [PATCH] configfs: implement binary attributes

2015-12-29 Thread Krzysztof Opasiak
W dniu 2015-12-30 o 00:00, Joel Becker pisze: > On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 03:51:10PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> From: Pantelis Antoniou >> >> ConfigFS lacked binary attributes up until now. This patch >> introduces support for binary attributes in a somewhat similar >> manner of sysfs bin

Re: [PATCH] configfs: implement binary attributes

2015-12-29 Thread Joel Becker
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 03:51:10PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > From: Pantelis Antoniou > > ConfigFS lacked binary attributes up until now. This patch > introduces support for binary attributes in a somewhat similar > manner of sysfs binary attributes albeit with changes that > fit the confi

[PATCH] configfs: implement binary attributes

2015-12-24 Thread Christoph Hellwig
From: Pantelis Antoniou ConfigFS lacked binary attributes up until now. This patch introduces support for binary attributes in a somewhat similar manner of sysfs binary attributes albeit with changes that fit the configfs usage model. Problems that configfs binary attributes fix are everything t

Re: [PATCH] configfs: Implement binary attributes

2015-12-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Hi Christoph, On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 03:31:42PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> I have two fixes in the topic/overlays branch of renesas-drivers.git: > > Does thus mean you already have the patch queued up for Linus? No, this is ju

Re: [PATCH] configfs: Implement binary attributes

2015-12-22 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 03:31:42PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > I have two fixes in the topic/overlays branch of renesas-drivers.git: Does thus mean you already have the patch queued up for Linus? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a me

Re: [PATCH] configfs: Implement binary attributes

2015-12-18 Thread Pantelis Antoniou
Hi Geert, > On Dec 18, 2015, at 16:31 , Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Hi Christoph, > > On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Pantelis Antoniou > wrote: >>> On Dec 18, 2015, at 13:26 , Christoph Hellwig wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 01:21:39PM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: It???

Re: [PATCH] configfs: Implement binary attributes

2015-12-18 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Hi Christoph, On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: >> On Dec 18, 2015, at 13:26 , Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> >> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 01:21:39PM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: >>> It???s on my TODO list for the holiday break. >>> >>> It is not dropped, just /me swamped

Re: [PATCH] configfs: Implement binary attributes

2015-12-18 Thread Pantelis Antoniou
Hi Christoph, > On Dec 18, 2015, at 13:26 , Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 01:21:39PM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: >> It???s on my TODO list for the holiday break. >> >> It is not dropped, just /me swamped. > > I'm happy to take over the patch, but the real important p

Re: [PATCH] configfs: Implement binary attributes

2015-12-18 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 01:21:39PM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: > It???s on my TODO list for the holiday break. > > It is not dropped, just /me swamped. I'm happy to take over the patch, but the real important part is to have in a shared repository where you and I can use it. For that we'll n

Re: [PATCH] configfs: Implement binary attributes

2015-12-18 Thread Pantelis Antoniou
Hi Christoph, > On Dec 18, 2015, at 13:20 , Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Joel, Andrew, > > On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 10:21:24AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> what's the state of this patch? I'll need it for some work I plan to >> merge for 4.5 as well, so getting it into a stable repository

Re: [PATCH] configfs: Implement binary attributes

2015-12-18 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Joel, Andrew, On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 10:21:24AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > what's the state of this patch? I'll need it for some work I plan to > merge for 4.5 as well, so getting it into a stable repository we could > both base off would be nice. > > Talking about that, I'd be happy to

Re: [PATCH] configfs: Implement binary attributes

2015-12-01 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Hi Pantelis, what's the state of this patch? I'll need it for some work I plan to merge for 4.5 as well, so getting it into a stable repository we could both base off would be nice. Talking about that, I'd be happy to volunteer maintaining a configfs tree as the current split over -mm and the ta

[PATCH] configfs: Implement binary attributes

2015-10-22 Thread Pantelis Antoniou
ConfigFS lacked binary attributes up until now. This patch introduces support for binary attributes in a somewhat similar manner of sysfs binary attributes albeit with changes that fit the configfs usage model. Problems that configfs binary attributes fix are everything that requires a binary blob

Re: [PATCH] configfs: Implement binary attributes

2015-09-17 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 09:29:35AM +0300, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: > Yes, indeed this is interesting. > > I could rebase on-top of your tree and try to make things simpler. > Do you mind if you carry the binary attribute patch along when you post > yours? Sure, I can do that. -- To unsubscribe fr

Re: [PATCH] configfs: Implement binary attributes

2015-09-16 Thread Pantelis Antoniou
Hi Christoph, > On Sep 17, 2015, at 03:37 , Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Hi Pantelis, > > can you check if your patches become simpler on top of the changes > in this tree: > > http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/block.git/shortlog/refs/heads/configfs.2 > > I recently started using configfs an

Re: [PATCH] configfs: Implement binary attributes

2015-09-16 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Hi Pantelis, can you check if your patches become simpler on top of the changes in this tree: http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/block.git/shortlog/refs/heads/configfs.2 I recently started using configfs and came up with this to avoid the gigantic amounts of boilerplate code required for configf

[PATCH] configfs: Implement binary attributes

2015-09-16 Thread Pantelis Antoniou
ConfigFS lacked binary attributes up until now. This patch introduces support for binary attributes in a somewhat similar manner of sysfs binary attributes albeit with changes that fit the configfs usage model. Problems that configfs binary attributes fix are everything that requires a binary blob

Re: [PATCH] configfs: Implement binary attributes (v3)

2015-06-12 Thread Chris Wulff
Pantelis Antoniou konsulko.com> writes: ... > +static ssize_t > +configfs_write_bin_file(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, > + size_t count, loff_t *ppos) > +{ ... > + len = simple_write_to_buffer(buffer->bin_buffer, > + buffer->bin_buffer_size

Re: [PATCH] configfs: Implement binary attributes (v3)

2014-10-28 Thread Pantelis Antoniou
Hi Greg, > On Oct 29, 2014, at 04:54 , Greg Kroah-Hartman > wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:30:32PM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: >> ConfigFS lacked binary attributes up until now. This patch >> introduces support for binary attributes in a somewhat similar >> manner of sysfs binary att

Re: [PATCH] configfs: Implement binary attributes (v3)

2014-10-28 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:30:32PM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: > ConfigFS lacked binary attributes up until now. This patch > introduces support for binary attributes in a somewhat similar > manner of sysfs binary attributes albeit with changes that > fit the configfs usage model. > > Problems

[PATCH] configfs: Implement binary attributes (v3)

2014-10-28 Thread Pantelis Antoniou
ConfigFS lacked binary attributes up until now. This patch introduces support for binary attributes in a somewhat similar manner of sysfs binary attributes albeit with changes that fit the configfs usage model. Problems that configfs binary attributes fix are everything that requires a binary blob