linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] fs: configfs: programmatically create config groups

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Date:	Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:24:45 +0100
From:	Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>
To:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@...sung.com>,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	'Kyungmin Park' <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
	'Felipe Balbi' <balbi@...com>,
	'Greg Kroah-Hartman' <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	'Joel Becker' <jlbec@...lplan.org>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] fs: configfs: programmatically create config groups

On Wed, Nov 28 2012, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>             <function_name>-<common_name>
> /functions/acm-function/
>
> instead of
>             <common_name>
> /functions/function1/
>                       +name
> with attribute file named "name" which contains the name of the
> function (i.e. acm). My point is to keep "name" in the directory name
> instead having an extra attribute.

Right.  But as I've suggested:

	mkdir functions/<function-name>
	mkdir functions/<function-name>/<common-name>

which IMO is easier to handle in kernel (no parsing) and looks nicer in
user space.

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