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From: Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@polcom.net>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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Subject: Re: debugfs in the namespace
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On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Greg KH wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:45:31PM -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
>> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:18:43 -0800, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hm, what about /.debug ?  That's a compromise that I can live with (even
>>> less key strokes to get to...)
>>
>> No way, Jan is out of his mind, adding obfuscations like that. Anything
>> but that. I didn't even bother to reply, because it never occurred to me
>> that you'd fall for something so retarded.
>
> Bah, fine :)
>
>> Otherwise, /dbg sounds good.
>
> Ok, I can live with that.

I agree that anything like /.* is broken and strange... But this is only 
my little opinion. :-)

But why creating dir in /proc - like /proc/debug is bad? Its advantages:
- it does not pollute namespace,
- it can be created by kernel at startup even on systems where debugfs 
will not be used (why not?),
- /proc is mounted in all configurations and often it is the first thing 
that startscripts do,
- if somebody really needs to debug proc using debugfs he can always mount 
it as /debug temporaily.


Thanks,

Grzegorz Kulewski