From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@istop.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:13:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050830231307.GE22068@insight.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200508310854.40482.phillips@istop.com>
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On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 08:54:39AM +1000, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> But it would be stupid to forbid users from creating directories in sysfs or
> to forbid kernel modules from directly tweaking a configfs namespace. Why
> should the kernel not be able to add objects to a directory a user created?
> It should be up to the module author to decide these things.
This is precisely why configfs is separate from sysfs. If both
user and kernel can create objects, the lifetime of the object and its
filesystem representation is very complex. Sysfs already has problems
with people getting this wrong. configfs does not.
The fact that sysfs and configfs have similar backing stores
does not make them the same thing.
Joel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-30 23:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-30 22:54 Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 22:57 ` [RFC][PATCH 2 " Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 22:59 ` [RFC][PATCH 3 " Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 23:03 ` [RFC][PATCH 4 " Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 23:30 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 23:06 ` [RFC][PATCH 3 " Stephen Hemminger
2005-08-30 23:18 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 23:10 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 23:22 ` [RFC][PATCH 2 " Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 23:13 ` Joel Becker [this message]
2005-08-30 23:25 ` [RFC][PATCH 1 " Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 23:35 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 23:28 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-30 23:34 ` viro
2005-08-30 23:51 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 23:37 ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-31 0:03 ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04 3:53 ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04 4:12 ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04 4:41 ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04 4:54 ` Joel Becker
2005-09-07 20:31 ` Greg KH
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