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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:39:22 +0000
From: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: debugfs in the namespace
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On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 04:06:00AM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> /dev is the normal place where stuff related to the user/kernel
> interface should go, so /dev/debug or /dev/debugfs would be the right
> answer (and yes, /proc and /sys violate this, but we're stuck with
> those.)

There is also /dev/oprofile/ as recent 2.6 precedent for this.

john