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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 20:47:25 -0500 From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/5] tracing: Add new file system tracefs On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 07:00:07 +0800 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote: > Any chance you can use kernfs as your "basis" for this filesystem > instead of having to roll all of your own functions? I'm slowly > working on moving debugfs to it, and it should save a lot of code > there, as well as fixing some "problems" we have in debugfs file > lifetimes when things are removed from the system. Someone else told me about doing this too. I'll take a look at it. > > And given the number of mistakes in this submission, I'll wait for a > v2 before really reading the code :) Well, if I switch to using kernfs, I expect we should ignore this version as well, as I would think it would make this series obsolete. Also, if that's the case, I guess I could keep all the "tracefs" code in kernel/tracing and not place it in the fs/ directory? Kind of like what cgroups does. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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