From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262184AbVGLDMn (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:12:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262261AbVGLDMi (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:12:38 -0400 Received: from opersys.com ([64.40.108.71]:26893 "EHLO www.opersys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261965AbVGLDJ4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:09:56 -0400 Message-ID: <42D3331F.8020705@opersys.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:03:59 -0400 From: Karim Yaghmour Reply-To: karim@opersys.com Organization: Opersys inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040805 Netscape/7.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr, fr-be, fr-ca, fr-fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: Tom Zanussi , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, varap@us.ibm.com, richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com Subject: Re: Merging relayfs? References: <17107.6290.734560.231978@tut.ibm.com> <20050712030555.GA1487@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20050712030555.GA1487@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH wrote: > What ever happened to exporting the relayfs file ops, and just using > debugfs as your controlling fs instead? As all of the possible users > fall under the "debug" type of kernel feature, it makes more sense to > confine users to that fs, right? Actually, like we discussed the last time this surfaced, there are far more users for relayfs than just debugging. What we settled on was having relayfs export its file ops so that indeed debugfs users could use it to log things in conjunction with debugfs. Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits http://www.opersys.com || karim@opersys.com || 1-866-677-4546