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

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0905271418290.17378@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 May 2009 14:22:37 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
cc:	GeunSik Lim <leemgs1@...il.com>, 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 PATCH]debugfs:Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to
 mount debugfs filesystem.


On Wed, 27 May 2009, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:

> Hello Steve,
> 
> On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 22:38 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> > If you look in Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt I have:
> > 
> > ===
> > To mount the debugfs system:
> > 
> >   # mkdir /debug
> >   # mount -t debugfs nodev /debug
> > 
> > ( Note: it is more common to mount at /sys/kernel/debug, but for
> >   simplicity this document will use /debug)
> > ===
> > 
> 
> Please standardize Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt and avoid confusion to
> users:
> 
> ===
> To mount the debugfs system:
> 
>   # mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug
> ===

I really don't want to do that. Then I would need to show

 # echo function_graph > /sys/kernel/debug/current_trace

Which I really do not like. I state that the common place to mount it is 
in /sys/kernel/debug, But my examples are much easier to understand if
I just do: # echo function_graph > /debug/current_trace

-- Steve

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