From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755732AbYBSQoY (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:44:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753010AbYBSQoP (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:44:15 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:35898 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752899AbYBSQoO (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:44:14 -0500 Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:38:10 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Viro , Christoph Hellwig , David Howells Subject: Re: [RFC 00/11] possible debugfs/libfs consolidation Message-ID: <20080219163810.GC3718@suse.de> References: <20080219040435.825494460@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080219040435.825494460@arndb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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