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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] debugfs for 2.6.10-rc3
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:33:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041218023335.GA19699@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041216213645.GA9710@kroah.com>

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:36:45PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> I've added debugfs to my bk driver tree (located at
> bk://kernel.bkbits.net/gregkh/linux/driver-2.6) so it will show up in
> the next -mm release.  

Debugfs is a very natural name, but it will undoubtedly cause
confusion since we already have debugfs(8) in e2fsprogs.  One is a
filesystem, and the other is a user-mode command, so it's not a total
name collision, but it could cause some communication mixups.  

On the other hand, I couldn't think of a better name, so perhaps we
should just live with it.  I did want to point out the potential
problem now while there's still a chance to change it, though....

						- Ted

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-12-18  2:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-16 21:36 [PATCH] debugfs for 2.6.10-rc3 Greg KH
2004-12-17  0:47 ` Alexander Nyberg
2004-12-17  0:58   ` Greg KH
2004-12-18  2:33 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2004-12-18  2:57   ` Greg KH

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