linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] move debugfs to filesystems menu (fs/Kconfig)

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Date:	Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:21:30 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] move debugfs to filesystems menu (fs/Kconfig)

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 01:22:07PM -0500, Dave Hansen wrote:
> 
> debugfs may have started out as a kernel hacking kind of option.  But,
> today, it is an integral part of lots of facilities like tracing that
> are far from kernel hacking.  Let's move it out of the very cluttered
> "Kernel Hacking" menu and but it next to its real family: other
> filesystems like sysfs, configfs, or /proc.
> 
> Also, "Debug filesystem" sounds like a debugging option _for_
> filesystems code, not a filesystem for debugging.  We also never call
> it "the debug filesystem."  We always say "debugfs", so reflect the
> fact that we _call_ it debugfs in the menu text.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
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