From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757836AbZE2QsS (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2009 12:48:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753629AbZE2QsG (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2009 12:48:06 -0400 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.123]:35397 "EHLO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753059AbZE2QsG (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 May 2009 12:48:06 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 12:48:06 -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: <1243613134.20635.14.camel@centos51> 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 Sat, 30 May 2009, GeunSik Lim wrote: > > > Dear Greg and Steen, > > Thanks your advices and opinions about a confusion according to > too many mount directory names for debugfs. I made rfc v2 patch file again like belows. > Can I hear your advices about below patch contents?. > > * ref: > http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/c34e386587979340/dc52317f888e78b6?#dc52317f888e78b6 > > > Regards, > GeunSik Lim. > > Subject: [PATCH] Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem. > > Many developers use "/debug/" or "/debugfs/ directory name to mount > debugfs filesystem for ftrace according to > ./Documentation/tracers/ftrace.txt file. > > And, three directory names(ex:/debug/, /debugfs/, /sys/kernel/debug/) is > existed in kernel source like ftrace, DRM, Wireless, Network[sky2]files > to mount debugfs filesystem. > > debugfs means debug filesystem for debugging easy to use by greg kroah > hartman. "/sys/kernel/debug/" name is suitable as directory name > of debugfs filesystem. > -debugfs related reference: http://lwn.net/Articles/115405/ Note, LWN has an update this week: http://lwn.net/Articles/334546/ But it currently is subscriber only. Others would need to either buy a subscription (plug) or wait a week for it to become open. Still for some aspects, just having "debugfs" without the leading "/" might just be self explanatory. We can assume the user already knows where debugfs is mounted. -- Steve > > Fix inconsistency of directory name to mount debugfs filesystem. > > Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim > Acked-By: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez > CC: Greg KH > CC: Steven Rostedt > CC: linux-kernel