linux-kernel - Re: [RFC V2 PATCH]debugfs:Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem.

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Date:	Fri, 29 May 2009 12:33:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	GeunSik Lim <leemgs1@...il.com>
cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.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 V2 PATCH]debugfs:Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name
 to mount debugfs filesystem.


On Fri, 29 May 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> ===
> When debugfs is configured into the kernel (which selecting any ftrace 
> option will do) the directory /sys/kernel/debug will be created. To mount 
> this directory, you can add to your /etc/fstab file:
> 
>   debugfs	/debug		debugfs	defaults	0	0

s,/debug,/sys/kernel/debug,

> 
> Or you can mount it at run time with:
> 
>   mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug
> 
> For quicker access to that directory you may want to make a soft link to 
> it:
> 
>  ln -s /sys/kernel/debug /debug
> 
> Any selected ftrace option will also create a directory called tracing 
> within the debugfs. The rest of the document will assume that you are in 
> the ftrace directory (cd /sys/kernel/debugfs) and will only concentrate
> on the files within that directory and not distract from the content with 
> the extended "/sys/kernel/debug/tracing" path name.
> ===

-- Steve

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