From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261185AbULRWZW (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Dec 2004 17:25:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261229AbULRWZW (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Dec 2004 17:25:22 -0500 Received: from waste.org ([216.27.176.166]:10383 "EHLO waste.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261185AbULRWZR (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Dec 2004 17:25:17 -0500 Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:24:57 -0800 From: Matt Mackall To: Greg KH Cc: Pete Zaitcev , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: debugfs in the namespace Message-ID: <20041218222457.GB28322@waste.org> References: <20041216110002.3e0ddf52@lembas.zaitcev.lan> <20041216190835.GE5654@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041216190835.GE5654@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:08:35AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:00:02AM -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > > > what is the canonic place to mount debugfs: /debug, /debugfs, or anything > > else? The reason I'm asking is that USBMon has to find it somewhere and > > I'd really hate to see it varying from distro to distro. > > Hm, in my testing I've been putting it in /dbg, but I don't like vowels :) > > Anyway, I don't really know. /dev/debug/ ? /proc/debug ? /debug ? > > What do people want? I guess it's time to write up a LSB proposal :( What I'd like is to _not_ have a standard, so that no one is tempted to depend on it being there. No one but developers should mount it by default and no standard tools should depend on it for functionality. If you put it in a standard place, people will start treating it as ABI and then a year down the road we will have _three_ /proc-style ABI barf-bags rather than just one. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.