Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 13/26] staging:batman-adv: convert multiple /proc files to use sysfs

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 07:51:05AM +0800, Marek Lindner wrote:
> > The others are all single-value files, right?  Or did I miss something?
> > If they are single-value files, then yes, they can stay in sysfs, unless
> > you feel they are debug-type things, then debugfs is the place for them
> > (debugfs makes is trivial to handle single value files, even easier than
> > sysfs.)
> 
> Well, now that you mention it ..  :-)
> Next to the sysfs interface batman creates a file in /dev (/dev/batman-adv at 
> the moment) that is used to inject (debug) packets into the mesh from user 
> space. Due to our ongoing mesh abstraction effort we would need to create one 
> file per virtual mesh which is little bit messy in /dev (although doable). I'd 
> like to get it out of there - can/should we move it to debugfs ? The initial 
> reason to choose /dev was the ability get the open() and close() syscalls 
> because we need to maintain a state for each user.

Yes, that sounds like debugfs might work for you there.

Just remember the one rule of debugfs:
	There are no rules for debugfs

If you are ok with that, then by all means, use it :)

thanks,

greg k-h