From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262337AbVGLEqh (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:46:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262341AbVGLEqh (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:46:37 -0400 Received: from opersys.com ([64.40.108.71]:21264 "EHLO www.opersys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262337AbVGLEqg (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:46:36 -0400 Message-ID: <42D349C9.3060805@opersys.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:40:41 -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> <42D3331F.8020705@opersys.com> <20050712032424.GA1742@kroah.com> <42D33E99.7030101@opersys.com> <20050712043056.GC2363@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20050712043056.GC2363@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: > The path/filename dictates how it is used, so putting relayfs type files > in debugfs is just fine. debugfs allows any types of files to be there. ... > New trees in / are not LSB compliant, hence the reason for writing > securityfs to get rid of /selinux and other LSM filesystems that were > starting to sprout up. ... > But that's exactly what debugfs is for, to allow data to be dumped out > of the kernel for different usages. ... > Ok, have a better name for it? It's simple and easy to understand. It also carries with it the stigma of "kernel debugging", which I just don't see production system maintainers liking very much. So tell you what, how about if we merged what's in debugfs into relayfs instead? We'll still end up with one filesystem, but we'll have a more inocuous name. After all, if debugfs is indeed for dumping data from the kernel to user-space for different usages, then relaying is what it's actually doing, right? 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