Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:27:04 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>, Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, axboe@suse.de, karim@opersys.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] sysfs: relay channel buffers as sysfs attributes
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On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 12:37:32PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> 
> debugfs seems to offer really too much flexibility for what LTTng needs. It
> doesn't really have to redefine "new" operations : the poll/ioctl used by LTTng
> could in fact be integrated into RelayFS and simplify the file reading
> operation.

Heh, you don't _have_ to use all of the flexibility in debugfs if you
don't want to do so.  Why not create a simple debugfs wrapper function
(like the ones already present) to create the file in the format that
you wish to have it in?  I'd be glad to accept such a patch.

And yes, I think LTT should be using debugfs, as that is exactly what it
was created for (debugging stuff.)

thanks,

greg k-h
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