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

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Message-ID: <20070214012732.GA9023@suse.de>
Date:	Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:27:32 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@...ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH debugfs: implement symbolic links

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 12:13:54PM +0100, Peter Oberparleiter wrote:
> From: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@...ibm.com>
> 
> debugfs: implement symbolic links
> 
> Implement a new function debugfs_create_symlink() which can be used
> to create symbolic links in debugfs. 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...

Otherwise I have no objection to this, I'll add it to my queue...

thanks,

greg k-h
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