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Message-Id: <1252350914.7503.24.camel@twins>
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:15:14 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc: leemgs1@...il.com, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca, Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] debugfs - Fix mount directory of debugfs by
default in events.txt
On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 11:55 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 02:48:57PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 21:37 +0900, GeunSik Lim wrote:
> > >
> > > >From 99e8ab48d783e619329c31e8f91e4384729a2e8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > > From: GeunSik,Lim <leemgs1@...il.com>
> > > Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 20:34:19 +0900
> > > Subject: [PATCH 1/5] Fix mount directory of debugfs by default in events.txt
> > >
> > > We need common default directory of denbugfs for consistency.
> > > (debugfs's default directory is /sys/kernel/debug/ by debugfs.)
> >
> > I'd rather we fix that brain-dead default.
>
> Um, why is that "brain-dead"? It was discussed many times when debugfs
> first came out and this was what was decided on.
>>From what people tell me it wasn't a clear consensus.
> So what is the problem?
Its not related to sysfs in any way I can discover, its not consistent
with most of the other virtual fs', and its way too much typing.
we don't mount /dev, /proc, /sys in weird places either, so why should
we mount /debug in a cumbersome location.
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