linux-kernel - Re: debugfs oddity

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Message-ID: <20061004081213.GA3477@suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 4 Oct 2006 01:12:13 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@...cle.com>,
	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
Subject: Re: debugfs oddity

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:20:46AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 22:28 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > sysfs works much differently here, as does configfs.  debugfs just uses
> > the vfs layer's ramfs stack, so any potential problem here is probably
> > also present in ramfs.  Have you tried that out?
> 
> Just had a go -- ramfs works as expected, at least when I do the dance
> from userspace as I had in (a')-(d').

I don't understand.  Does ramfs have the same issues you feel debugfs
has?  Or does it work like a disk based file system?

thanks,

greg k-h
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