On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote:
quoted text
> Bert wrote:
>  > Btw, I think you can now push for a deprecation of the 'old' mask
>  > attributes, with the justification you have given above. The other
>  > possibility is to change sysfs to provide bigger attribute buffers
>  > (CCed Greg for this).
>
>  On the other hand, and my main point of this message, I can't
>  see deprecating the mask format files on account of this sort
>  of analysis.
>
My statement from above doesn't reflect my opinion. I'm still in
flavor with the mask output. And from this discussion, I found a new
point for the mask output: its bounded ;-)

I just wanted to note, that these new list attributes would be the
only way to 'change' the api, ie. introduce a new api and deprecate
the old one, and not change the format of the present api.

Unfortunately, to support the mask attributes beyond 4k cpus, sysfs
has to support greater attribute buffers.

Bert
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