linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 3/8] vfs: Convert tracefs to fs

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Date:   Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:59:25 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/8] vfs: Convert tracefs to fs_context

On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:49:00 +0000
David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:

> How about this:
> 
> """
> Convert tracefs to the new internal mount API as the old one will be
> obsoleted and removed.  This allows greater flexibility in communication of
> mount parameters between userspace, the VFS and the filesystem.
> 
> See Documentation/filesystems/mount_api.txt
> """

Better than none ;-)

> 
> I should update the subjects to say "Convert xxxfs to use the new mount
> API" too.
> 

Yep.

-- Steve