From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261912AbULKC2J (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Dec 2004 21:28:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261914AbULKC2I (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Dec 2004 21:28:08 -0500 Received: from umhlanga.stratnet.net ([12.162.17.40]:56837 "EHLO umhlanga.STRATNET.NET") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261912AbULKC2C (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Dec 2004 21:28:02 -0500 To: Greg KH Cc: David Brownell , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Message-Flag: Warning: May contain useful information References: <20041210005055.GA17822@kroah.com> <200412101729.01155.david-b@pacbell.net> <20041211013930.GB12846@kroah.com> From: Roland Dreier Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:26:49 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20041211013930.GB12846@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:39:30 -0800") Message-ID: <52is797eom.fsf@topspin.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: roland@topspin.com Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [RFC PATCH] debugfs - yet another in-kernel file system Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.1 (built Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:06:07 +0200) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on eddore) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Dec 2004 02:26:49.0974 (UTC) FILETIME=[DE9D1960:01C4DF28] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg> I considered adding a kobject as a paramater to the debugfs Greg> interface. The file created would be equal to the path that Greg> the kobject has. Would that work for you? I'd really prefer this to be optional at least. Somethings it's nice to use kobjects for, but creating hierarchies of subdirectories is not really one of them. - R.