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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 17:00:16 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] debugfs: Replace dentry with an opaque handle in
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On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 11:53:13AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> No it will not be fine. You should not be using dentry at all. I thought
> this was going to convert debugfs over to kernfs. The debugfs_node should
> be using kernfs and completely eliminate the use of dentry.

I disagree, actually - kernfs is an awful model for anything, sysfs included...