From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762594AbZE2QeB (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2009 12:34:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753213AbZE2Qdy (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2009 12:33:54 -0400 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.122]:51999 "EHLO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752123AbZE2Qdy (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2009 12:33:54 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 12:33:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Steven Rostedt X-X-Sender: rostedt@gandalf.stny.rr.com To: GeunSik Lim cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel , trivial@kernel.org, balagi@justmail.de, bgamari@gmail.com, Ingo Molnar , inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com Subject: Re: [RFC V2 PATCH]debugfs:Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1243315163.14685.17.camel@centos51> <1243613134.20635.14.camel@centos51> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 29 May 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote: > === > When debugfs is configured into the kernel (which selecting any ftrace > option will do) the directory /sys/kernel/debug will be created. To mount > this directory, you can add to your /etc/fstab file: > > debugfs /debug debugfs defaults 0 0 s,/debug,/sys/kernel/debug, > > Or you can mount it at run time with: > > mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug > > For quicker access to that directory you may want to make a soft link to > it: > > ln -s /sys/kernel/debug /debug > > Any selected ftrace option will also create a directory called tracing > within the debugfs. The rest of the document will assume that you are in > the ftrace directory (cd /sys/kernel/debugfs) and will only concentrate > on the files within that directory and not distract from the content with > the extended "/sys/kernel/debug/tracing" path name. > === -- Steve