On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 08:28:19PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > For configfs bin_attr it won't work, simply because it wants the entire > thing to be present - callback parses the data. For SCSI tape... Maybe, > but you'll need to take care of the overlaps with ->write(). Right now > it can't happen (the last reference, about to be dropped right after > st_flush() returns); if we do that on each ->flush(), we will have to > cope with that fun and we'll need to keep an error (if any) for the > next call of st_flush() to pick and return. I'm not saying it can't > be done, but that's really a question for SCSI folks. So for the one real life example of the configfs attribute life actually is simpler. acpi_table_aml_write verifies early on that the size matches what it expects. So if we document that any future instance needs to be able to do that as well we should be able to get away with just writing it from ->flush.
