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From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: phillips@istop.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:03:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050831000316.GF22068@insight.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050830162846.5f6d0a53.akpm@osdl.org>

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On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 04:28:46PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com> wrote:
> > 	The fact that sysfs and configfs have similar backing stores
> > does not make them the same thing.
> > 
> 
> Sure, but all that copying-and-pasting really sucks.  I'm sure there's some
> way of providing the slightly different semantics from the same codebase?

	The way that configfs and sysfs create/destroy dentries and
their associated inodes is very different from the top, yet similar from
the bottom.  I suspect that some of it could be libraryized.  When I
first looked started configfs, I was starting from an "add on to sysfs"
perspective, after all.  The sysfs maintainers and I agreed, after much
discussion, that we should go to a separate tree.

Joel

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-31  0:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-30 22:54 [RFC][PATCH 1 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 22:57 ` [RFC][PATCH 2 " Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 22:59   ` [RFC][PATCH 3 " Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 23:03     ` [RFC][PATCH 4 " Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 23:30       ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 23:06     ` [RFC][PATCH 3 " Stephen Hemminger
2005-08-30 23:18       ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 23:10     ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 23:22   ` [RFC][PATCH 2 " Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 23:13 ` [RFC][PATCH 1 " Joel Becker
2005-08-30 23:25   ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 23:35     ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 23:28   ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-30 23:34     ` viro
2005-08-30 23:51       ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 23:37     ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-31  0:03     ` Joel Becker [this message]
2005-09-04  3:53     ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04  4:12       ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04  4:41         ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04  4:54           ` Joel Becker
2005-09-07 20:31             ` Greg KH

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