From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762853AbYBSEOd (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:14:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757538AbYBSEMX (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:12:23 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.174]:56589 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756541AbYBSEMV (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:12:21 -0500 Message-Id: <20080219040435.825494460@arndb.de> User-Agent: quilt/0.46-1 Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:04:35 +0100 From: Arnd Bergmann To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Viro , Christoph Hellwig , Greg KH , David Howells Subject: [RFC 00/11] possible debugfs/libfs consolidation X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19gdtj9s0Tk+mgIwd64ef/x7A7bzQQjyPhC4i8 VeOKCpsFgD2rDEFZg/NaE6jztgwRModDFnVnOkgcUDbSe33Oh9 D78G04XeaAeY+lrTSJa7w== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 <><