From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luis Chamberlain Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 06:59:22 +0000 Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Simplefs: group and simplify linux fs code In-Reply-To: <20200414124304.4470-1-eesposit@redhat.com> References: <20200414124304.4470-1-eesposit@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20200416065922.GS11244@42.do-not-panic.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito Cc: Song Liu , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" , David Airlie , Heiko Carstens , Alexei Starovoitov , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, "J. Bruce Fields" , Joseph Qi , Hugh Dickins , Paul Mackerras , John Johansen , linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com, Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Donnellan , Matthew Garrett , linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann , Daniel Borkmann , Christian Borntraeger , linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, Michael Ellerman , Mark Fasheh , Anton Vorontsov , John Fastabend , James Morris , Ard Biesheuvel , Jason Gunthorpe , Doug Ledford , oprofile-list@lists.sf.net, Yonghong Song , Ian Kent , Andrii Nakryiko , Alexey Dobriyan , "Serge E. Hallyn" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Robert Richter , Thomas Zimmermann , Vasily Gorbik , Tony Luck , Kees Cook , "James E.J. Bottomley" , autofs@vger.kernel.org, Mike Marciniszyn , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, "Manoj N. Kumar" , Uma Krishnan , Jakub Kicinski , KP Singh , Trond Myklebust , "Matthew R. Ochs" , "David S. Miller" , Felipe Balbi , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, Iurii Zaikin , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, "Martin K. Petersen" , linux-mm@kvack.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Dennis Dalessandro , Miklos Szeredi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Anna Schumaker , linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, Chuck Lever , Jeremy Kerr , Colin Cross , Frederic Barrat , Paolo Bonzini , Andrew Morton , Mike Kravetz , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Martin KaFai Lau , Joel Becker , Alexander Viro On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 02:42:54PM +0200, Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito wrote: > This series of patches introduce wrappers for functions, > arguments simplification in functions calls and most importantly > groups duplicated code in a single header, simplefs, to avoid redundancy > in the linux fs, especially debugfs and tracefs. The general goal seems worthy, but here I don't see explained why hasn't this gone through libfs, and what the intention was long term. For instance, you added some other generalizations which you have found. It was not clear that this was the goal here, to expand on these paths. What if common code on fs is found which are not part of debugfs and tracefs, how does one decide if to move to libfs or simplefs? Luis