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Message-ID: <AANLkTik07hZot_x0p7xJuY8s4f8pGRd2Mn1+jYfHH2iq@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:07:43 -0700
From:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Lennart Poettering <lennart@...ttering.net>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Ben Blum <bblum@...rew.cmu.edu>,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cgroupfs: create /sys/fs/cgroup to mount cgroupfs on

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
>
> If you are using /dev/cgroup/ that's nice, but I don't think that people
> are expecting a whole filesystem under a /dev/ subdirectory.

Sure - as I said that's just for historical reasons from when we
migrated from cpusets which were traditionally mounted at /dev/cpuset,
so it involved less change. There's no particular reason to mount it
there (although having said that, what about /dev/pts and /dev/shm?).

Paul
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