From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] move debugfs to filesystems menu (fs/Kconfig) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:21:30 -0800 Message-ID: <20121218022130.GA16839@kroah.com> References: <20121217182206.91AA150A@kernel.stglabs.ibm.com> <20121217182207.4CF51258@kernel.stglabs.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121217182207.4CF51258@kernel.stglabs.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Hansen Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-arch.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 01:22:07PM -0500, Dave Hansen wrote: > > debugfs may have started out as a kernel hacking kind of option. But, > today, it is an integral part of lots of facilities like tracing that > are far from kernel hacking. Let's move it out of the very cluttered > "Kernel Hacking" menu and but it next to its real family: other > filesystems like sysfs, configfs, or /proc. > > Also, "Debug filesystem" sounds like a debugging option _for_ > filesystems code, not a filesystem for debugging. We also never call > it "the debug filesystem." We always say "debugfs", so reflect the > fact that we _call_ it debugfs in the menu text. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman