From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757578AbZEZTvQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2009 15:51:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755559AbZEZTvE (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2009 15:51:04 -0400 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:1207 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753978AbZEZTvD (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 May 2009 15:51:03 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.41,253,1241420400"; d="scan'208";a="519029809" From: =?iso-8859-1?q?I=F1aky_P=E9rez-Gonz=E1lez?= To: "leemgs1@gmail.com" Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH]debugfs:Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem. Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 12:50:33 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Steven Rostedt , Greg KH , linux-kernel , "trivial@kernel.org" , "balagi@justmail.de" , "bgamari@gmail.com" , Ingo Molnar References: <1243315163.14685.17.camel@centos51> In-Reply-To: <1243315163.14685.17.camel@centos51> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905261250.34056.inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 25 May 2009, GeunSik Lim wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to hear your opinions about this proposal for consistency of > mount directory to mount debugfs filesystem that need by ftrace > infrastructure. Um... I appended "RFC" word in the subject because this > mail is my proposal just. > > > commit 1766a83645706100b1829bb422f852ec757c6f4b > Author: GeunSik,Lim > Date: Tue May 26 13:49:23 2009 +0900 > > Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem. > > Many developers use "/debug/" directory name to mount debugfs > filesystem for ftrace according to ./Documentation/tracers/ftrace.txt file. > > But, two directory names(ex:/debug/, /debugfs/) is existed in kernel > source like ftrace, DRM, Wireless, Network[sky2]files to mount debugfs > filesystem. I think that we don't have to select either "/debug/" directory > name or "/debugfs/" directory name for terminology consistency. > > debugfs means debug filesystem for debugging easy to use by greg > kroah hartman. "/debug/" name is suitable as directory name of debugfs for > tracing using ftrace like "/sys/" of sysfs(system filesystem). -debugfs > related reference: http://lwn.net/Articles/115405/ > > Fix inconsistency of directory name according to duplicated > expression to mount debugfs. > > Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim For the WiMAX part, not really an issue: Acked-By: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez