From: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>, Jonathan Lassoff <jof@thejof.com>,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] Add XFS messages to printk index
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 18:09:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YkSOyC+vEMVSDsdU@chrisdown.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220330124739.70edca36@gandalf.local.home>
Steven Rostedt writes:
>On Wed, 30 Mar 2022 12:52:58 +0100
>Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name> wrote:
>
>> The policy, as with all debugfs APIs by default, is that it's completely
>> unstable and there are no API stability guarantees whatsoever. That's why
>> there's no extensive documentation for users: because this is a feature for
>> kernel developers.
>>
>> 0: https://lwn.net/Articles/309298/
>
>That article you reference states the opposite of what you said. And I got
>burnt by it before. Because Linus stated, if it is available for users, it
>is an ABI.
Hmm, even in 2011 after that article there were discussions about debugfs
explicitly being the "wild west"[0], no? I heard the same during LSFMM
discussions during recent years as well. Although I confess that I am not
frequently in discussions about debugfs so I don't really know where the
majority opinion is nowadays.
Either way, as discussed the contents wouldn't be the ABI (as with my
/proc/self/smaps allusion), the file format would be, so it wouldn't imply that
printk() calls themselves or their locations become an ABI.
0: https://lwn.net/Articles/429321/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-30 17:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-25 17:19 [PATCH v3 1/2] Simplify XFS logging methods Jonathan Lassoff
2022-03-25 17:19 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] Add XFS messages to printk index Jonathan Lassoff
2022-03-29 13:34 ` Petr Mladek
2022-03-30 0:34 ` Dave Chinner
2022-03-30 0:46 ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-03-30 1:26 ` Dave Chinner
2022-03-30 14:59 ` Petr Mladek
2022-03-30 15:07 ` Chris Down
2022-03-31 15:06 ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-04-05 12:55 ` Petr Mladek
2022-03-31 9:14 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2022-03-30 11:52 ` Chris Down
2022-03-30 16:47 ` Steven Rostedt
2022-03-30 17:09 ` Chris Down [this message]
2022-03-30 17:25 ` Chris Down
2022-03-30 17:39 ` Steven Rostedt
2022-03-30 17:44 ` Chris Down
2022-03-30 21:02 ` Dave Chinner
2022-03-31 14:09 ` Petr Mladek
2022-04-01 21:50 ` Dave Chinner
2022-03-30 12:05 ` Chris Down
2022-03-30 0:05 ` Dave Chinner
2022-03-30 12:07 ` Chris Down
2022-03-31 1:38 ` Jonathan Lassoff
2022-03-29 13:03 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] Simplify XFS logging methods Petr Mladek
2022-03-29 23:54 ` Dave Chinner
2022-03-30 11:40 ` Petr Mladek
2022-03-30 11:55 ` Chris Down
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