linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH]debugfs:Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem.

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Date:	Thu, 28 May 2009 14:41:41 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>,
	GeunSik Lim <leemgs1@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, trivial@...nel.org,
	balagi@...tmail.de, bgamari@...il.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	inaky.perez-gonzalez@...el.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH]debugfs:Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name
	to mount debugfs filesystem.

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:45:51AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > I'm sorry you have to type a long path, perhaps you wish to invest in a
> > tab key for auto-completion :)
> > 
> > Again, distros already mount debugfs at this location, please don't
> > confuse people just because you are annoyed at the length of the path.
> 
> Have you found which packages do that?

The base system packages on all openSUSE and SLE11 releases.  Possibly
SLE10 also does it, but I don't have a running instance of that at the
moment.

> The point is that the document is more interested in showing the files 
> that are being used, and if I add /sys/kernel/debug/ in front of every 
> file, that just distracts from the eye. As stated:
> 
>   "but for simplicity this document will use /debug"

Sorry for the "distraction", but that goes against documentation on your
machine:
	$ man mount | grep -A 3 "Mount options for debugfs"
	Mount options for debugfs
	       The debugfs file system is a pseudo file system, traditionally  mounted
	       on /sys/kernel/debug.  There are no mount options.

It's not only a documented standard, it's a "tradition" :)

Please fix your documentation.

thanks,

greg k-h
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