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From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Subject: Re: debugfs in the namespace
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Followup to:  <20041216110002.3e0ddf52@lembas.zaitcev.lan>
By author:    Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hi Greg,
> 
> what is the canonic place to mount debugfs: /debug, /debugfs, or anything
> else? The reason I'm asking is that USBMon has to find it somewhere and
> I'd really hate to see it varying from distro to distro.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- Pete
> 

/dev is the normal place where stuff related to the user/kernel
interface should go, so /dev/debug or /dev/debugfs would be the right
answer (and yes, /proc and /sys violate this, but we're stuck with
those.)

	-hpa