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Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:33:55 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
       Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC 01/11] add generic versions of debugfs file operations
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 05:04:36AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The file operations in debugfs are rather generic and can
> be used by other file systems, so it can be interesting to
> include them in libfs, with more generic names, and exported
> to modules.
> 
> This patch adds a new copy of these operations to libfs,
> so that the debugfs version can later be cut down.

BTW, where does CONFIG_LIBFS come from?