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

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Message-ID: <50B65D6D.1000303@linutronix.de>
Date:	Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:52:29 +0100
From:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
To:	Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>
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 11/28/2012 03:24 PM, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
> 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.

Just posted an example. Please tell me what you think.

Sebastian
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