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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Karim Yaghmour <karim@opersys.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
	Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, axboe@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] sysfs: relay channel buffers as sysfs attributes
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:32:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060222213214.GA17155@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43FCD735.2030002@opersys.com>

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 04:27:17PM -0500, Karim Yaghmour wrote:
> 
> Greg KH wrote:
> > And as a debug tool, debugfs seems like the perfict place for it, as you
> > have just stated :)
> 
> So then the statement is that debugfs is for _ALL_ kinds of debugging,
> including application debugging. IOW, anyone considering debugfs as
> an fs exclusive to kernel-developers is WRONG. IOW2, distros should
> _NOT_ shy away from enabling debugfs by default on their production
> kernels.
> 
> Right?

Sure, I don't see why not.  But if a distro doesn't include anything in
their kernels that use debugfs, then they have no reason to enable it.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-22 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-19 17:17 [PATCH, RFC] sysfs: relay channel buffers as sysfs attributes Paul Mundt
2006-02-19 17:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-19 17:56 ` Greg KH
2006-02-19 18:52   ` Paul Mundt
2006-02-20  5:29     ` Tom Zanussi
2006-02-20  9:20       ` Jens Axboe
2006-02-20 11:17       ` Paul Mundt
2006-02-20 13:05       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-02-20 14:17         ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-20 17:15         ` Paul Mundt
2006-02-20 17:37           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-02-20 22:27             ` Greg KH
2006-02-21 15:21             ` Paul Mundt
2006-02-21 16:48               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2006-02-21 17:43                 ` Greg KH
2006-02-22 21:27                   ` Karim Yaghmour
2006-02-22 21:32                     ` Greg KH [this message]
2006-02-20 22:24     ` Greg KH
2006-02-21 15:10       ` [PATCH] sysfs: Add __ATTR_RELAY() helper for relay attributes Paul Mundt

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