Re: [RFC][PATCH 1 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs

Joel Becker
2005-08-31T00:03:03Z

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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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