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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement renaming for debugfs
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 20:26:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070502032627.GA7845@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070430175536.GK28367@duck.suse.cz>

On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 07:55:36PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>   Hello,
> 
>   attached patch implements renaming for debugfs. I was asked for this
> feature by WLAN guys and I guess it makes sence (they have some debug info
> in the directory identified by interface name and that can change...).
> Could someone have a look at what I wrote whether it looks reasonable?
> Thanks.
> 
> 								Honza
> 
> -- 
> Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> SuSE CR Labs

> Implement debugfs_rename() to allow renaming files/directories in debugfs.

I think you are going to need more infrastructure here, the caller
doesn't want to have to allocate a new dentry themselves, they just want
to pass in the new filename :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-02  3:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-30 17:55 [PATCH] Implement renaming for debugfs Jan Kara
2007-05-02  3:26 ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-05-03  9:54   ` Jan Kara
2007-05-04  0:16     ` Greg KH
2007-05-04 14:14       ` Jan Kara
2007-05-07 16:28         ` Greg KH
2007-05-09 11:19           ` Jan Kara

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