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Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:02:40 -0500
From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>,
       Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>, ltt-dev@lists.casi.polymtl.ca,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [ltt-dev] [PATCH 1/2] Make lttctl mount debugfs automatically
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 03:54:19PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 10:30:22PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>> * Zhaolei (zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com) wrote:
>> > * From: "Mathieu Desnoyers" <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
>> > >* Zhaolei (zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com) wrote:
>> > >> * From: "Pierre-Marc Fournier" <pierre-marc.fournier@polymtl.ca>
>> > >> > Zhaolei wrote:
>> > >> >> lttctl need debugfs mounted,
>> > >> >> This patch make lttctl mount debugfs automatically when it is not mounted.
>> > >> >> 
>> > >> > 
>> > >> > Isn't having a utility such as lttctl mount filesystems against standard
>> > >> > unix semantics? Can you give an example of another standard command that
>> > >> > uses a filesystem and that tries to mount it if it isn't already
>> > >> > mounted? 
>> > >> Hello, Pierre-Marc,
>> > >> 
>> > >> I can give a an example.
>> > >> It is SystemTap.
>> > >> 
>> > > 
>> > > No offence, but can you find an example which is not explicitly
>> > > described as "bad taste" example by many people in the Linux kernel
>> > > community ?
>> > Hello, Mathieu
>> > 
>> > I can't find another example of mounting debugfs automatically.
>
>Have you looked?  openSUSE mounts it automatically, and I think Fedora
>also does so.

Fedora doesn't.  At least not with the last 3 stable releases.

josh