linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] configfs: enable kernel-space item registration

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Message-ID: <878qfgx25r.fsf@t14s.mail-host-address-is-not-set>
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:35:12 +0100
From: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>
To: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric
 Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo
 Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 hch@...radead.org, jlbec@...lplan.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, gustavold@...il.com, asantostc@...il.com,
 calvin@...nvd.org, kernel-team@...a.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] configfs: enable kernel-space item registration

"Breno Leitao" <leitao@...ian.org> writes:

> This series introduces a new kernel-space item registration API for configfs
> to enable subsystems to programmatically create configfs items whose lifecycle
> is controlled by the kernel rather than userspace.
>
> Currently, configfs items can only be created via userspace mkdir operations,
> which limits their utility for kernel-driven configuration scenarios such as
> boot parameters or hardware auto-detection.

I thought sysfs would handle this kind of scenarios?

Best regards,
Andreas Hindborg