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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 00/11] possible debugfs/libfs consolidation
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:38:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080219163810.GC3718@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080219040435.825494460@arndb.de>

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 05:04:35AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 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.

I like the idea, and have no objection to these patches at all.  Please
feel free to test them and send them again :)

thanks,

greg k-h

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-19 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-19  4:04 [RFC 00/11] possible debugfs/libfs consolidation Arnd Bergmann
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 ` Greg KH [this message]

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