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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Hi Bart,

> As you know with configfs it is not allowed to create directories in the 
> configfs hierarchy from inside the kernel.

Of course you can, and every user of configfs relies on being able
to create directories from the kernel using either the default_groups
list, or through the use of configfs_register_group().