From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262213AbVGLDYm (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:24:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262282AbVGLDYl (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:24:41 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:20659 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262213AbVGLDYk (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:24:40 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 20:24:24 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Karim Yaghmour Cc: Tom Zanussi , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, varap@us.ibm.com, richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com Subject: Re: Merging relayfs? Message-ID: <20050712032424.GA1742@kroah.com> References: <17107.6290.734560.231978@tut.ibm.com> <20050712030555.GA1487@kroah.com> <42D3331F.8020705@opersys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42D3331F.8020705@opersys.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 11:03:59PM -0400, Karim Yaghmour wrote: > > Greg KH wrote: > > What ever happened to exporting the relayfs file ops, and just using > > debugfs as your controlling fs instead? As all of the possible users > > fall under the "debug" type of kernel feature, it makes more sense to > > confine users to that fs, right? > > Actually, like we discussed the last time this surfaced, there are far > more users for relayfs than just debugging. Based on the proposed users of this fs, I don't see any. What ones are you saying are not "debug" type operations? And yes, I consider LTT a "debug" type operation :) The best part of this, is it gives distros and users a consistant place to mount the fs, and to know where this kind of thing shows up in the fs namespace. > What we settled on was having relayfs export its file ops so that > indeed debugfs users could use it to log things in conjunction with > debugfs. Last I looked, this was not possible. Has this changed in the latest version? thanks, greg k-h