From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 490A11C11 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2024 01:24:03 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1706232244; cv=none; b=ZEjFYwwnrVr9g8k9JC09IUMJ/eAlb1OP57nqUxL9bUTVkYCoyLpvu4V1XxGd6/a3ngyLHuyCniSRdwOS3uzU/wxbCgm28Xv6DHTeB4W2+38AkrPPSV/ZQm8D9bOJK8NZ2gAULGCcCyUPa0SoYzTWBftEEdFek6gBW1T/TbB9q34= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1706232244; c=relaxed/simple; bh=oSGq9uwyg+B2ll9QSLTEjxJ24HB6EzkDLtQtu6dCAs8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=gmRxceNXUx64trRj+/pgjFMnub8r9WAJT5zvvvy6cg3lChedjTeB3YcR0srVvMVOUCGU8QB+5UgZqGCPyuwAbhIs0jyKjaxyk/+B1FoM6tB1aNwUVDNvPMMsfaTeSbmCypz2ZpuNkUFsAwMGL2ARC9XD0lSpEAXsJ1ljG8FxaBA= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=U/eTjQB5; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="U/eTjQB5" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A7670C433F1; Fri, 26 Jan 2024 01:24:03 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1706232243; bh=oSGq9uwyg+B2ll9QSLTEjxJ24HB6EzkDLtQtu6dCAs8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=U/eTjQB5b7iuivW+i7VgtzksfSlY6pzNQjsiGdDkJlLBruHJgCReRnGYZHQjXYeEU c+ipLy8FZ0ycVR1us1JOl2Dqkxvcjt4whxVWgx5KsSt42q+XUy2Hs4l5qmK+THCA5Y 8wgxQSsE5tvxNCHi8UcvJtlQBHjHyjH6AOg032AI= Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 17:24:03 -0800 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Steven Rostedt Cc: lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Christian Brauner , Al Viro , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Making pseudo file systems inodes/dentries more like normal file systems Message-ID: <2024012522-shorten-deviator-9f45@gregkh> References: <20240125104822.04a5ad44@gandalf.local.home> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20240125104822.04a5ad44@gandalf.local.home> 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? :) thanks, greg k-h