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Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote:
>
> > Can't we just stick a PAGE_SIZE in here?
> 
> We could - either way works about as well.  Is there something special
> about PAGE_SIZE here?  Is that in fact what sysfs is making available?

Think so.  Greg, can you confirm that a SYSDEV_ATTR's handler can safely
assume that it has a PAGE_SIZE buffer to write to?