From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: [RFC 00/11] possible debugfs/libfs consolidation
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:04:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080219040435.825494460@arndb.de> (raw)
I noticed that there is a lot of duplication in pseudo
file systems, so I started looking into how to consolidate
them. I ended up with a largish rework of the structure
of libfs and moving almost all of debugfs in there as well.
As an example, I also have patches that reduce debugfs,
securityfs and usbfs to the point where they are mostly
thin wrappers around libfs, with large comment blocks.
Other file systems could be changed in the same way, but
I first like to see if people agree that I'm on the right
track.
These patches have seen practically no testing so far,
so don't expect them to work, but please tell me what
you think about the concept.
Arnd <><
next reply other threads:[~2008-02-19 4:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-19 4:04 Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2008-02-19 4:04 ` [RFC 01/11] add generic versions of debugfs file operations Arnd Bergmann
2008-02-23 12:24 ` Al Viro
2008-02-24 10:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-02-24 18:00 ` Greg KH
2008-02-23 12:33 ` Al Viro
2008-02-19 4:04 ` [RFC 02/11] introduce simple_fs_type Arnd Bergmann
2008-02-23 12:28 ` Al Viro
2008-02-24 10:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-02-19 4:04 ` [RFC 03/11] slim down debugfs Arnd Bergmann
2008-02-23 12:37 ` Al Viro
2008-02-23 19:55 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-02-24 10:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-02-19 4:04 ` [RFC 04/11] slim down securityfs Arnd Bergmann
2008-02-19 4:04 ` [RFC 05/11] slim down usbfs Arnd Bergmann
2008-02-19 4:04 ` [RFC 06/11] split out linux/libfs.h from linux/fs.h Arnd Bergmann
2008-02-19 4:04 ` [RFC 07/11] split out libfs/file.c from libfs.c Arnd Bergmann
2008-02-19 4:04 ` [RFC 08/11] split out libfs/dentry.c " Arnd Bergmann
2008-02-19 4:04 ` [RFC 09/11] split out libfs/super.c " Arnd Bergmann
2008-02-19 4:04 ` [RFC 10/11] split out libfs/inode.c " Arnd Bergmann
2008-02-19 4:04 ` [RFC 11/11] split out libfs/aops.c " Arnd Bergmann
2008-02-19 16:38 ` [RFC 00/11] possible debugfs/libfs consolidation Greg KH
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