Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:43:18 -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 Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:48:53AM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> The problem sits in how tracing is seen. To kernel hackers, it is seen as an
> interesting kernel debugging tool, while for the vast majority of LTTng
> users, it is seen as a useful system wide information gathering tool to debug
> _their_ system wide problems involving programs, librairies and drivers.

And as a debug tool, debugfs seems like the perfict place for it, as you
have just stated :)

And please, no matter what you decide on, do NOT put those files in
proc, as they have nothing to do with processes.

thanks,

greg k-h
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