From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262749AbULQFsT (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2004 00:48:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262750AbULQFsT (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2004 00:48:19 -0500 Received: from mail-in-02.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.42]:63978 "EHLO mail-in-02.arcor-online.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262749AbULQFsP (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2004 00:48:15 -0500 From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Subject: Re: debugfs in the namespace To: Greg KH , Pete Zaitcev , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reply-To: 7eggert@gmx.de Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 06:51:11 +0100 References: User-Agent: KNode/0.7.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 04:51:18PM -0500, Mike Waychison wrote: >> Please, let's not make debugfs part of userspace. Keep it for what it >> is, debugging purposes only. > > I'm not saying we will ever make it "required" at all. It's just that > people are going to want to mount the thing, and are already asking me > where we should mount it at. If you pick a different place than me, > fine, I don't mind. It's the user who is asked to report some info that > happens to be in debugfs that is going to want to know where to put it, > as they have no idea even what it is. Distros are going to ask what to > put in their fstabs for where to mount the thing too. > > So, let's pick a place and be done with it. /mnt (users) or /var/adm/mount/debugfs (distros, asuming they mount their temporary stuff there). I'm asuming you should almost never need to touch devfs-entries, so if your distro mounts it just in case, it should be out of the way.