From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Ben Nizette <bn@niasdigital.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in>,
Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCHES] Re: Is configfs the right solution for configuration based fs?
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:44:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080621084440.GA25489@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1214035422.2336.121.camel@moss.renham>
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 06:03:42PM +1000, Ben Nizette wrote:
> In the kobject/kset case the separation makes sense as kobjects are
> embedded in things all over the kernel controlling things like ref
> counting, device model glue, hotplug info as well as the sysfs
> representation. The config_item doesn't have any responsibilities
> outside of the configfs representation (does it?) so the analogy isn't
> 100%. Though of course the item/group split makes sense if there are
> grander plans for the config_item in the future.
The config_item is indeed embedded in whatever struct it maps
too. eg, the ocfs2 nodemanager can have a couple hundred nodes, and
that's one config_item per. The fs/dlm stuff can have even more nodes.
Joel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-21 10:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-08 21:25 Is configfs the right solution for configuration based fs? Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-06-09 2:28 ` Joel Becker
2008-06-11 9:04 ` Joel Becker
2008-06-09 9:03 ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-10 0:12 ` Ben Nizette
2008-06-10 8:01 ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-10 8:12 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-06-10 22:12 ` Ben Nizette
2008-06-19 2:48 ` [RFC PATCHES] " Joel Becker
2008-06-20 6:19 ` Ben Nizette
2008-06-20 6:52 ` Joel Becker
2008-06-20 9:22 ` Ben Nizette
2008-06-20 21:37 ` Joel Becker
2008-06-21 1:03 ` Ben Nizette
2008-06-21 2:02 ` Joel Becker
2008-06-21 8:03 ` Ben Nizette
2008-06-21 8:44 ` Joel Becker [this message]
2008-06-21 11:44 ` Ben Nizette
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