From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>,
James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>,
Matthew Helsley <matt.helsley@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/8] procfs: Add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:35:58 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120814183558.GA1551@moon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120814183142.GH23464@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 07:31:42PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > Initially we considered to inject some "show" metod to
> > file_operations but since there really a number of
> > file_operations declared inside kernel (and in real the
> > further patches cover onle eventfd/epoll/inotify) the
> > waste of memory space will be inacceptable I think.
>
> NAK. This is too ugly to live. Put it into file_operations,
> with NULL meaning default output, or don't do it at all.
>
> And no, "it's only if you enable CONFIG_SOME_SHIT" gambit won't
> fly - we have all seen it played too many times. All it takes
> is one politically-inclined induhvidual adding a dependency to
> some "vertically integrated" turd (*cough* systemd *spit* udev
> *cough*) and we are stuck with the damn thing. CGROUP shite
> is already there, DEVTMPFS is well on its way, etc.
OK, I'll put it into file_operations then (actually Pavel was
proposing the same but I've been scared by amount of file_operations
declared). Thanks!
Cyrill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-14 18:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-14 14:03 [patch 0/8] procfs fdinfo providers updated Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-14 14:03 ` [patch 1/8] procfs: Move /proc/pid/fd[info] handling code to fd.[ch] Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-14 14:21 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-14 14:03 ` [patch 2/8] procfs: Convert /proc/pid/fdinfo/ handling routines to seq-file Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-14 14:21 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-14 14:03 ` [patch 3/8] procfs: Add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-14 14:22 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-14 18:31 ` Al Viro
2012-08-14 18:35 ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2012-08-14 19:56 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-14 21:27 ` Al Viro
2012-08-14 21:56 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-14 22:21 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 0:07 ` Al Viro
2012-08-15 7:40 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-14 14:03 ` [patch 4/8] fs, eventfd: Add procfs fdinfo helper Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-14 14:22 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-14 14:03 ` [patch 5/8] fs, epoll: Add procfs fdinfo helper v2 Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-14 14:22 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-14 14:03 ` [patch 6/8] fs, exportfs: Add export_encode_inode_fh helper Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-14 14:23 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-14 14:03 ` [patch 7/8] fs, notify: Add procfs fdinfo helper v3 Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-14 14:23 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2012-08-14 14:03 ` [patch 8/8] fdinfo: Show sigmask for signalfd fd Cyrill Gorcunov
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-08-15 9:21 [patch 0/8] procfs, fdinfo updated Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 9:21 ` [patch 3/8] procfs: Add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 21:16 ` Al Viro
2012-08-15 21:31 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-15 21:29 ` Al Viro
2012-08-15 21:34 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-08-16 10:58 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
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