From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/10] AXFS: axfs_profiling.c Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:39:36 +0200 Message-ID: <200808211339.37187.arnd@arndb.de> References: <48AD00F8.1030004@gmail.com> <48AD2AFF.5060609@de.ibm.com> <1219308560.2988.247.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1219308560.2988.247.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: David Woodhouse Cc: carsteno@de.ibm.com, jaredeh@gmail.com, Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd , =?iso-8859-15?q?J=F6rn_Engel?= , tim.bird@am.sony.com, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au On Thursday 21 August 2008, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 10:44 +0200, Carsten Otte wrote: > > > > Exporting profiling data for a file system in another file system > > (/proc) seems not very straigtforward to me. I think it is worth > > considering to export this information via the same mount point. > > I would have said sysfs, rather than 'the same mount point'. > Let me throw in debugfs as my preferred option. sysfs is for stable interfaces, while profiling generally fits into the debugging category. Arnd <><