Re: Externalize SLIT table

[Andi Kleen]

On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:50:29AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 10:44:49AM -0600, Jack Steiner wrote:
> > > > +	for (i = 0; i < numnodes; i++)
> > > > +		len += sprintf(buf + len, "%s%d", i ? " " : "", node_distance(nid, i));
> > > 
> > > Can this overflow the space allocated for buf?
> > 
> > 
> > Good point. I think we are ok for now. AFAIK, the largest cpu count
> > currently supported is 512. That gives a max string of 2k (max of 3 
> > digits + space per cpu).
> 
> I always wondered why sysfs doesn't use the seq_file interface that makes
> life easier in the rest of them kernel.

Most fields only output a single number, and seq_file would be 
extreme overkill for that.

-Andi
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