linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH debugfs: implement symbolic links

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Message-ID: <20070214194554.GC8603@suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:45:54 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Peter 1 Oberparleiter <Peter.Oberparleiter@...ibm.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH debugfs: implement symbolic links

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 09:03:24AM +0100, Peter 1 Oberparleiter wrote:
> Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote on 14.02.2007 02:27:32:
> > On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 12:13:54PM +0100, Peter Oberparleiter wrote:
> > > This function can be useful
> > > for people moving functionality from /proc to debugfs (e.g. the
> > > gcov-kernel patch).
> > 
> > You aren't really creating debugfs symlinks from /sys/kernel/debug/ to
> > the /proc directory are you?  That's pretty insane...
> 
> Interesting idea :) But I was thinking more along the lines of replacing
> existing /proc files and symlinks with files and links in debugfs.

Ah, ok, that sounds much saner :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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