From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751566Ab3LKVWi (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:22:38 -0500 Received: from mail-yh0-f42.google.com ([209.85.213.42]:44879 "EHLO mail-yh0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750849Ab3LKVWh (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:22:37 -0500 Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:22:32 -0500 From: Tejun Heo To: Greg KH Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, kay@vrfy.org Subject: Re: [PATCHSET driver-core-next] kernfs: implement kernfs_dir_ops Message-ID: <20131211212232.GD7683@mtj.dyndns.org> References: <1386795780-23324-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <20131211211907.GA20491@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131211211907.GA20491@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hey, Greg. On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 01:19:07PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Very cool, will this let us move configfs to use kernfs as well? That's > one of the reasons that the two filesystems couldn't be merged in the > past from what I remember. I haven't looked into the details but configfs would need hooks for more operations - file creation and all; however, those should be trivial. kernfs doesn't care what those operations do at all. All it needs to do is just routing the invocations through the callbacks. Thanks. -- tejun