linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHSET driver-core-next] kernfs: implement kernfs_dir

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Message-ID: <20131211212232.GD7683@mtj.dyndns.org>
Date:	Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:22:32 -0500
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com, kay@...y.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET driver-core-next] kernfs: implement kernfs_dir_ops

Hey, Greg.

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 01:19:07PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> Very cool, will this let us move configfs to use kernfs as well?  That's
> one of the reasons that the two filesystems couldn't be merged in the
> past from what I remember.

I haven't looked into the details but configfs would need hooks for
more operations - file creation and all; however, those should be
trivial.  kernfs doesn't care what those operations do at all.  All it
needs to do is just routing the invocations through the callbacks.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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