Re: [PATCH 1/5] debugfs - Fix mount directory of debugfs by default in events.txt

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 11:55 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 02:48:57PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 21:37 +0900, GeunSik Lim wrote:
> > > 
> > > >From 99e8ab48d783e619329c31e8f91e4384729a2e8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > > From: GeunSik,Lim <leemgs1@gmail.com>
> > > Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 20:34:19 +0900
> > > Subject: [PATCH 1/5] Fix mount directory of debugfs by default in events.txt
> > > 
> > > We need common default directory of denbugfs for consistency.
> > > (debugfs's default directory is /sys/kernel/debug/ by debugfs.)
> > 
> > I'd rather we fix that brain-dead default.
> 
> Um, why is that "brain-dead"?  It was discussed many times when debugfs
> first came out and this was what was decided on.

>From what people tell me it wasn't a clear consensus.

> So what is the problem?

Its not related to sysfs in any way I can discover, its not consistent
with most of the other virtual fs', and its way too much typing.

we don't mount /dev, /proc, /sys in weird places either, so why should
we mount /debug in a cumbersome location.