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Message-ID: <20090528214141.GA10079@kroah.com>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 14:41:41 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>,
GeunSik Lim <leemgs1@...il.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 Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:45:51AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > I'm sorry you have to type a long path, perhaps you wish to invest in a
> > tab key for auto-completion :)
> >
> > Again, distros already mount debugfs at this location, please don't
> > confuse people just because you are annoyed at the length of the path.
>
> Have you found which packages do that?
The base system packages on all openSUSE and SLE11 releases. Possibly
SLE10 also does it, but I don't have a running instance of that at the
moment.
> The point is that the document is more interested in showing the files
> that are being used, and if I add /sys/kernel/debug/ in front of every
> file, that just distracts from the eye. As stated:
>
> "but for simplicity this document will use /debug"
Sorry for the "distraction", but that goes against documentation on your
machine:
$ man mount | grep -A 3 "Mount options for debugfs"
Mount options for debugfs
The debugfs file system is a pseudo file system, traditionally mounted
on /sys/kernel/debug. There are no mount options.
It's not only a documented standard, it's a "tradition" :)
Please fix your documentation.
thanks,
greg k-h
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