From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: David Reaver <me@davidreaver.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
Krister Johansen <kjlx@templeofstupid.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] samples/kernfs: Add a pseudo-filesystem to demonstrate kernfs usage
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 22:08:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z5h0Xf-6s_7AH8tf@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250121153646.37895-1-me@davidreaver.com>
On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 07:36:34AM -0800, David Reaver wrote:
> This patch series creates a toy pseudo-filesystem built on top of kernfs in
> samples/kernfs/.
Is that a good idea? kernfs and the interactions with the users of it
is a pretty convoluted mess. I'd much prefer people writing their
pseudo file systems to the VFS APIs over spreading kernfs usage further.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-28 6:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-01-21 15:36 [PATCH 0/5] samples/kernfs: Add a pseudo-filesystem to demonstrate kernfs usage David Reaver
2025-01-21 15:46 ` [PATCH 1/5] samples/kernfs: Adds boilerplate/README for sample_kernfs David Reaver
2025-01-21 15:46 ` [PATCH 2/5] samples/kernfs: Make filesystem mountable David Reaver
2025-01-21 15:46 ` [PATCH 3/5] samples/kernfs: Add counter file to each directory David Reaver
2025-01-21 15:47 ` [PATCH 4/5] samples/kernfs: Allow creating and removing directories David Reaver
2025-01-21 15:47 ` [PATCH 5/5] samples/kernfs: Add inc file to allow changing counter increment David Reaver
2025-01-28 6:08 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2025-01-28 15:27 ` [PATCH 0/5] samples/kernfs: Add a pseudo-filesystem to demonstrate kernfs usage Steven Rostedt
2025-01-28 22:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2025-01-28 22:42 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-01-28 22:51 ` Tejun Heo
2025-01-28 23:29 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-01-28 23:38 ` Tejun Heo
2025-01-29 0:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2025-02-03 15:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-02-03 16:12 ` David Reaver
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