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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 20:50:55 -0500
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Making pseudo file systems inodes/dentries more
 like normal file systems
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On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 17:24:03 -0800
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 10:48:22AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > Now that I have finished the eventfs file system, I would like to present a
> > proposal to make a more generic interface that the rest of tracefs and even
> > debugfs could use that wouldn't rely on dentry as the main handle.  
> 
> You mean like kernfs does for you today?  :)
> 

I tried to use kernfs when doing a lot of this and I had issues. I
don't remember what those were, but I can revisit it.

-- Steve